Pulling cylindrical particles using a soft-nonparaxial tractor beam

Abstract In order to pull objects towards the light source a single tractor beam inevitably needs to be strongly nonparaxial. This stringent requirement makes such a tractor beam somewhat hypothetical. Here we reveal that the cylindrical shape of dielectric particles can effectively mitigate the non...

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Main Authors: Andrey Novitsky, Weiqiang Ding, Maoyan Wang, Dongliang Gao, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Cheng-Wei Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00735-2