The interaction of two mutually orthogonal linearly polarized waves in the incidence plane, where the modulation of polarization and the modulation of the energy volume density occur simultaneously in the observation plane is considered. The spatial modulation of polarization in the observation plane forms the spatial modulation of the energy volume density, which changes the velocity of the particle’s motion according to the coherence characteristics of superposing fields and the resulting optical force that causes the motion of tested particles of micrometer range size. Peculiarities of particle’s motion in a spatial periodically modulated polarized field are determined by coherent properties of interacting optical fields.

Date Published: 14 September 2016
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9970, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing X, 99701O (14 September 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2238158

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9970:
Optics and Photonics for Information Processing X
Khan M. Iftekharuddin; Abdul A. S. Awwal; Mireya García Vázquez; Andrés Márquez; Mohammad A. Matin, Editor(s)