Quantitative assessment of non-conservative radiation forces in an optical trap

Details Quantitative assessment of non-conservative radiation forces in an optical trap Quantitative assessment of non-conservative radiation forces in an optical trap

2009-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4178v3

EPL (Europhys. Lett.) (2009) 86 38002 (5pp)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 4 figures; Europhys. Lett. (EPL) (2009), accepted

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/86/38002

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.

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