Linear momentum increase and negative optical forces at dielectric interface

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 787-790

  Kajorndejnukul, Veerachart ^a   Ding, Weiqiang ^b   Sukhov, Sergey ^a   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^b   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY OBJECTS; DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; DIELECTRIC MEDIUM; EXOTIC MATERIALS; LINEAR MOMENTA; MICROSCOPIC PARTICLE; NEW MECHANISMS; STRUCTURED LIGHT;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84885005370     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.192     Document Type: Article

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