Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2010-03-25
Physical Review A 81, 063830 (2010)
Physics
Optics
6 pages, no figures. Minor typos corrected, acknowledgment added. To appear in Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.81.063830
Critical experimental tests of the time-dependent Abraham force in phenomenological electrodynamics are scarce. In this paper we analyze the possibility of making use of intensity-modulated whispering gallery modes in a microresonator for this purpose. Systems of this kind appear attractive, as the strong concentration of electromagnetic fields near the rim of the resonator serves to enhance the Abraham torque exerted by the field. We analyze mainly spherical resonators, although as an introductory step we consider also the cylinder geometry. The order of magnitude of the Abraham torques are estimated by inserting reasonable values for the various input parameters. As expected, the predicted torques turn out to be very small, although probably not beyond any reach experimentally. Our main idea is essentially a generalization of the method used by G. B. Walker et al. [Can. J. Phys. 53, 2577] for low-frequency fields, to the optical case.
Brevik Iver
Ellingsen Simen A.
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