Abstract

A dielectric cylindrical shell material with an inner stationary absorptive core (or, equivalently, a concentric layered cylinder) illuminated by an axisymmetric wave field (in 2D) with arbitrary polarization will experience a time-averaged radiation force along the direction of wave propagation, whereas the transverse component vanishes as required by symmetry. Counterintuitively, the present analysis shows that when the inner absorptive core material rotates with an initial angular velocity ${\Omega _0}$ around its main geometrical axis, a transverse radiation force component arises (in addition to a longitudinal force) as well as an axial radiation torque component in plane waves. This phenomenon is the analog of the classical hydrodynamic Magnus effect. In this analysis, the instantaneous rest-frame theory and the modal series expansion method in cylindrical coordinates are utilized to formulate the EM/optical scattering from a cylindrical shell with arbitrary thickness, and to compute the optical radiation force and torque vector components. Particular emphases are given on the size parameter of the cylindrical shell, the layer thickness, the angular rotation of the inner absorptive core, and the polarization (TM or TE) of the incident plane waves. Numerical computations illustrate the analysis and explicate the behaviors of the longitudinal, transverse, and axial radiation force and torque components. Related applications for the optical Magnus effect in radiation force and torque investigations can benefit from the results of the present analysis in spin-optics, rotational Doppler shift for optical waves, optical tweezers, optical manipulation of elongated spinning objects, and particle rotation.

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