Photon momentum transfer in inhomogeneous dielectric mixtures and induced tractor beams

Cheng-Wei Qiu; Weiqiang Ding; M.R.C. Mahdy; Dongliang Gao; Tianhang Zhang; Fook Chiong Cheong; Aristide Dogariu; Zheng Wang; Chwee Teck Lim

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.51

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Photon momentum transfer in inhomogeneous dielectric mixtures and induced tractor beams

Original Articles

- Photon momentum transfer in inhomogeneous dielectric mixtures and induced tractor beams
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 2, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583, Singapore
  2.NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 28 Medical Drive, Singapore 117456, Singapore
  3.Physics Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  4.Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, 5A Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117411, Singapore
  5.CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
  6.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712, USA
  7.Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576, Singapore
- Author bio：
  
  CW Qiu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, E4-05-17, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583 Email: chengwei.qiu@nus.edu.sg
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.51
  CLC：
- Published：2015-06，
  
  Published Online：29 January 2015，
  
  Received：27 July 2014，
  
  Revised：24 January 2015，
  
  Accepted：28 January 2015
- Accepted：
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Qiu, C. W. et al. Photon momentum transfer in inhomogeneous dielectric mixtures and induced tractor beams. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e278 (2015).
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Qiu, C. W. et al. Photon momentum transfer in inhomogeneous dielectric mixtures and induced tractor beams. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e278 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.51.

摘要

Abstract

The determination of optical force as a consequence of momentum transfer is inevitably subject to the use of the proper momentum density and stress tensor. It is imperative and valuable to consider the intrinsic scheme of photon momentum transfer

particularly when a particle is embedded in a complex dielectric environment. Typically

we consider a particle submerged in an inhomogeneous background composed of different dielectric materials

excluding coherent illumination or hydrodynamic effects. A ray-tracing method is adopted to capture the direct process of momentum transfer from the complex background medium

and this approach is validated using the modified Einstein–Laub method

which uses only the interior fields of the particle in the calculation. In this way

debates regarding the calculation of the force with different stress tensors using exterior fields can be avoided. Our suggested interpretation supports only the Minkowski approach for the optical momentum transfer to the embedded scatterer while rejecting Peierls's and Abraham's approaches

though the momentum of a stably moving photon in a continuous background medium should be considered to be of the Abraham type. Our interpretation also provides a novel method of realizing a tractor beam for the exertion of negative force that offers an alternative to the use of negative-index materials

optical gain

or highly non-paraxial or multiple-light interference.

关键词

Keywords

dielectric interfaceMinkowski photon momentum transfermodified Einstein–Laub methodoptical pulling forceoptical tractor beams

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