Comment on "Observation of a Push Force on the End Face of a Nanometer Silica Filament Exerted by Outgoing Light" [PRL 101, 243601 (2008)]

Abstract

A brief discussion is given on the recent experiment of She et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 243601 (2008), arXiv:0806.2442], in relation to the Abraham-Minkowski energy-momentum problem.

1 page latex. The text is partially reformulated. To appear as a Comment in Phys. Rev. Lett

References in corpus (2)

• Observation of a push force on the end face of a nm fiber taper exerted by outgoing light
• Comment on "Observation of a push force on the end face of a nanometer silica filament exerted by outgoing light," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 243601 (2008)

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