Material-independent and size-independent tractor beams for dipole objects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Novitsky, Andrey ^a   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^b   Lavrinenko, Andrei ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; AXIAL GRADIENT; BESSEL BEAM; FAR-FIELD SCATTERING; NONPARAXIAL; POLARIZABILITIES; PULLING EFFECT; PULLING FORCE; SCATTERING RESONANCE; ULTRASENSITIVE;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; LASER BEAMS; SCATTERING; TRACTORS (TRUCK);

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

EID: 84863826339     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.023902     Document Type: Article

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