Origin of Tweezer Forces on Macroscopic Particles Using Highly Focused Beams

The following sections are included:

• Origin of the Net Backward Radiation Pressure Force in Tweezer Traps

• Light Propagation at the Focus of a High Numerical Aperture Beam

• Calculation of the Tweezer Forces on Dielectric Spheres in the Ray-Optics Regime

• Corrections to Paraxial Ray Approximation for Strongly Focused Gaussian Beams

• Fifth-Order Corrected Electromagnetic Field Components for a Focused Fundamental Gaussian Beam

• Computation of Net Force and Torque for a Spherical Particle Illuminated by a Focused Laser Beam

• Measurements of the Forces on Microspheres Held by Optical Tweezers

• Generalized Lorenz-Mie Theory for Convergent Gaussian Beams

• Computation of Backward Radiation Pressure Using GLMT

• Single-Beam Trapping of Rayleigh and Macroscopic Particles Using Exact Diffraction Theory

• Optical Gradient Forces of Strongly Localized Fields

• Exact Theory of Optical Tweezers for Macroscopic Dielectric Spheres

• Use of Optical Tweezers as a Stylus Support for Scanning Force Microscopy

• Localized Dynamic Light Scattering

• Thermal Ratchet Motors

• Experimental Test of Kramers'Theory of Thermally Driven Transition Rates