Momentum transfer in a standing optical vortex

Details Momentum transfer in a standing optical vortex Momentum transfer in a standing optical vortex

2007-12-27

arxiv.org/abs/0712.4243v3

Physics

Optics

English has been corrected; a second address entered; Eq.(13) and (14) corrected. 11 pages, including 1 figure

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A field superposition of singular beams incident on, and then reflected from a mirror has been investigated. It was demonstrated that the standing optical wave, which contains a vortex, possesses an orbital angle momentum where the energy flux circulates only in the azimuth direction of the beam. We show in this paper that the standing light wave containing the optical vortex transfers angular momentum to a substance located in the field of the vortex without moving the substance in the azimuth or radial directions. This property of the standing vortex present an opportunity to form the three-dimensional optical traps, gasdynamic and hydrodynamic vortices, in a localised volume by a direct transfer of the orbital angular momentum from the optical vortex.

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