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Optical “tractor beams” with nonconservative forces

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Abstract

We demonstrate that, for an entire class of optical beams, nonconservative forces can point in a direction opposite to propagation wavevector. The properties of these forces are examined in the Rayleigh and geometrical optics limits.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

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