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Optical force on a Rayleigh particle generated by photonic jet

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The optical force exerted on a Rayleigh dielectric spherical particle by a photonic jet is investigated in the framework of the Rayleigh approximation. The photonic jet is generated by a plane wave illuminating a Generalized Luneburg Lens (GLLs). The electric field of the photonic jet is calculated using Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA). The effects of wavelength of incident plane wave, focal length and radius of the GLLs on optical force are analyzed. Numerical results show that the stability of the captured particles can be controlled by changing the incident wavelength, focal length and radius of the GLLs.

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Bojian Wei thanks the National Science Foundation for help identifying collaborators for this work.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 61975158) and State Key Laboratory fund (The State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics).

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Wei, B., Chen, R., Xu, Q. et al. Optical force on a Rayleigh particle generated by photonic jet. Opt Rev 31, 41–53 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-023-00857-1

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