Artículo
Optical pulling force on dielectric particles via metallic slab surface plasmon excitation: a comparison between transmission and reflection schemes
Fecha de publicación:
04/2023
Editorial:
Optical Society of America
Revista:
Optics Letters
ISSN:
0146-9592
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
In this Letter, a simple structure formed by a metallic thin layer covering a high-index substrate is used to design an optical tweezer. Owing to the interaction between the field scattered by the particle with an incident plane wave and the proposed structure, a pulling or attractive component of the optical force emerges. This component results in enhancement thanks to the surface plasmons (SPs) excitation arising from the elliptical polarization of the induced dipole moment on the particle. To further exploit the versatility of the proposed approach, we analyze two basic configurations: the reflection scheme, for which the plane wave impinges from the side where the particle is placed; and the transmission scheme, for which the incidence is made from the substrate side. Our results show that the intensity of the pulling force in the reflection scheme and for finite thickness metal layer reaches values exceeding more than twice those provided by a single metallic interface. We also demonstrate that the transmission scheme is more favorable than the reflection scheme for enhancing pulling force intensities. Our contribution can be valuable for realizing simple plasmonic schemes for improving the pulling force via interactions between the nano-particle and SP fields.
Palabras clave:
Optical force
,
Plasmonics
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Metallic films
,
Polarization
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Ferrari, Hernan Javier; Herrero, V.; Cuevas, Mauro; Optical pulling force on dielectric particles via metallic slab surface plasmon excitation: a comparison between transmission and reflection schemes; Optical Society of America; Optics Letters; 48; 9; 4-2023; 2345-2348
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