FDTD approach to optical forces of tightly focused vector beams on metal particles

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8407-8416

  Qin, Jian Qi ^a   Wang, Xi Lin ^a   Jia, Ding ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Fan, Ya Xian ^a   Ding, Jianping ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

COMPARISON STUDY; INCIDENT FIELDS; METAL PARTICLE; NUMERIC SIMULATION; OPTICAL FORCE; SIZE DEPENDENCE; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES; TRAPPING FORCES;

METALS;

EID: 66449096515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008407     Document Type: Article

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