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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Optical forces in plasmonic nanoantennas

A S Shalin and S V Sukhov

The optical forces acting on nanoparticles in V-shaped plasmonic resonators with a high local-field gain have been investigated. Two versions are considered, which make it possible to implement either attractive or repulsive gradient optical forces. A plasmonic resonator is proposed, which can focus 350-nm radiation and implement a repulsive gradient force. It has been shown for the first time that a perturbation induced by a nanoparticle redistributes the field in the resonator so that additional intensity peaks arise in both versions to hold the nanoparticle in the resonator by forming an optical trap.

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