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

Figure 5

(a) Coordinate and (b) size dependence of the field-induced force components exerted to the spherical particle with refraction index 𝑚=1.5 in the incident field of (51) (superposition of plane waves with opposite circular polarizations), 𝛾=0.01. In (a) the diffraction parameter is 𝜉=3.4, in (b) the particle position corresponds to 2Φ=−𝜋/4. The force values are normalized by (46).

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