Quantitative assessment of non-conservative radiation forces in an optical trap
arXiv:0902.4178 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/86/38002
Abstract
The forces acting on an optically trapped particle are usually assumed to be conservative. However, the presence of a non-conservative component has recently been demonstrated. Here we propose a technique that permits one to quantify the contribution of such non-conservative component. This is an extension of a standard optical tweezers calibration technique and, therefore, can easily become a standard test to verify the conservative optical force assumption. Using this technique we have analyzed different-sized optically trapped particles under different trapping conditions. We conclude that the non-conservative effects are effectively negligible and do not affect the standard calibration procedure, unless for extremely low-power trapping, far away from the trapping regimes usually used in experiments.
8 pages, 4 figures; Europhys. Lett. (EPL) (2009), accepted
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