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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Optical recoil of asymmetric nano-optical antenna

Jung-Hwan Song, Jonghwa Shin, Hee-Jin Lim, and Yong-Hee Lee

We propose nano-optical antennas with asymmetric radiation patterns as light-driven mechanical recoil force generators. Directional antennas are found to generate recoil force efficiently when driven in the spectral proximity of their resonances. It is also shown that the recoil force is equivalent to the Poynting vector integrated over a closed sphere containing the antenna structures.

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