Optical Tractor Beams in Scattering-induced Left-Handed Fields

Alessandro Salandrino; Demetrios N. Christodoulides

doi:10.1364/QELS.2011.QTuI7

CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
paper QTuI7
•https://doi.org/10.1364/QELS.2011.QTuI7

Optical Tractor Beams in Scattering-induced Left-Handed Fields

Alessandro Salandrino and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference 2011

Baltimore, Maryland United States
1–6 May 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55752-910-7

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Abstract

We show here that left handed electromagnetic fields can be established over extended regions in fully dielectric structures. Particles immersed in such field configurations would move upstream against the radiation pressure of the incident wave.

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