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Quantitative assessment of non-conservative radiation forces in an optical trap
- Source :
- EPL (Europhys. Lett.) (2009) 86 38002 (5pp)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The forces acting on an optically trapped particle are usually assumed to be conservative. However, the presence of a non-conservative component has recently been demonstrated. Here we propose a technique that permits one to quantify the contribution of such non-conservative component. This is an extension of a standard optical tweezers calibration technique and, therefore, can easily become a standard test to verify the conservative optical force assumption. Using this technique we have analyzed different-sized optically trapped particles under different trapping conditions. We conclude that the non-conservative effects are effectively negligible and do not affect the standard calibration procedure, unless for extremely low-power trapping, far away from the trapping regimes usually used in experiments.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures; Europhys. Lett. (EPL) (2009), accepted
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- EPL (Europhys. Lett.) (2009) 86 38002 (5pp)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.0902.4178
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/86/38002