Equivalence of total force (and torque) for two formulations of the Lorentz law

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6326, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mansuripur, Masud ^a   Zakharian, Armis R ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lorentz force; Optical trapping; Optical tweezers; Radiation pressure

Indexed keywords

LORENTZ LAW; OPTICAL TRAPPING; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RADIATION PRESSURE;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; RADIATION EFFECTS; TORQUE; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

EID: 33751429400     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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