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  • 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
  • paper EF_9_1

Push and twist: the mechanical properties of light

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Abstract

Turn your face to the sun on a summer’s day and the warmth you feel is a clear and simple demonstration that light carries energy. It has long been known that it also carries both linear momentum and angular momentum and that these can be used to manipulate microscopic objects. Indeed, the idea that a single photon has energy ℏω, momentum ℏk and can carry orbital angular momentum ℏ is now well-established.

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