Cancellation of non-conservative scattering forces in optical traps by counter-propagating beams: erratum

Shawn Divitt, Loïc Rondin, and Lukas Novotny

In a previous Letter [Opt. Lett. 40, 1900 (2015) [CrossRef] ], we asserted that two counter-propagating beams must be polarized with opposite handedness to cancel scattering forces. A more careful calculation shows that this is not the case. The correct condition is achieved by beams with the same handedness, as derived in this Erratum.

DOI