Radiation forces on Rayleigh particles using a focused anomalous vortex beam under paraxial approximation》.pdf

Optics Communications 336 (2015) 202–206 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Optics Communications journal homepage: /locate/optcom Radiation forces on Rayleigh particles using a focused anomalous vortex beam under paraxial approximation Dongjie Zhang, Yuanjie Yang n School of Astronautics Aeronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The radiation forces of focused anomalous vortex beams acting upon a Rayleigh dielectric sphere are Received 16 June 2014 studied theoretically and numerically, based on the Rayleigh scattering theory, within the framework of Received in revised form paraxial approximation. It is shown that a focused anomalous vortex beam with a suitable mode order 8 October 2014 and topological charge can be used to trap and manipulate a dielectric sphere whose refractive index is Accepted 14 October 2014 Available online 18 October 2014 smaller or bigger than the ambient one at the focal point. The influences of the topological charges and the beam orders on the radiation force are also discussed. Furthermore, the stability conditions for ef- Keywords: fective trapping the Rayleigh particles are analyzed. Focused anomalous vortex beam 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Radiation