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Friday, July 11, 2014

Realization of optical pulling forces using chirality

Kun Ding, Jack Ng, Lei Zhou, and C. T. Chan

The optical force acting on a chiral particle is qualitatively different from that acting on an achiral particle due to chirality-dependent forces which couple mechanical linear momentum with optical spin angular momentum. We show that such chirality-induced coupling can serve as a mechanism to realize optical pulling forces that can be predicted analytically and are also observed in full wave simulations for chiral structures.

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