Mechanical effects of optical vortices

Abstract

We concentrate on the forces and torques exerted on transparent and absorbing particles trapped in laser beams containing optical vortices. We review previous theoretical and experimental work and then present new calculations of the effect of vortex beams on absorbing particles.

32 pages, 9 figures

References in corpus (1)

• Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Calculation and optical measurement of laser trapping forces on non-spherical particles