DIRECT OBSERVATION OF TRANSFER OF ANGULAR-MOMENTUM TO ABSORPTIVE PARTICLES FROM A LASER-BEAM WITH A PHASE SINGULARITY
DIRECT OBSERVATION OF TRANSFER OF ANGULAR-MOMENTUM TO ABSORPTIVE PARTICLES FROM A LASER-BEAM WITH A PHASE SINGULARITY
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.75.826
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发表时间:
1995-07-31
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
RUBINSZTEINDUNLOP, H
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文献类型:
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作者:
HE, H;FRIESE, MEJ;RUBINSZTEINDUNLOP, H
Black or reflective particles can be trapped in the dark central minimum of a doughnut laser beam produced using a high efficiency computer generated hologram. Such beams carry angular momentum due to the helical wave-front structure associated with the central phase singularity even when linearly polarized. Trapped absorptive particles spin due to absorption of this angular momentum transferred from the singularity beam. The direction of spin can be reversed by changing the sign of the singularity.