Research Article

Mechanical Action of Inhomogeneously Polarized Optical Fields and Detection of the Internal Energy Flows

Figure 3

Particle-size dependence of the field-induced force components acting on a small dielectric particle with refraction index 𝑚 = 1 . 5 in a circularly polarized ( 𝐹 𝑥 ±) and 45 linear polarized ( 𝐹 𝑥 / ) incident field (conditions of Figures 2(c) and 2(d)) in the double logarithmic scale. Line labels are the same as in Figure 2, and the orders of growth are added; lines 𝐹 𝑦 , 𝐹 𝑦 𝑠 , 𝐹 𝑧 , and 𝐹 𝑧 𝑠 for both polarization cases are identical.
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