Active, reactive and instantaneous optical forces on small particles in the time domain: Ultrafast attosecond subcycle pulses

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Autori principali: Xu, Xiaohao, Valero, Francisco J. Valdivia, Nieto-Vesperinas, Manuel
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Xu, Xiaohao
Valero, Francisco J. Valdivia
Nieto-Vesperinas, Manuel
author_facet Xu, Xiaohao
Valero, Francisco J. Valdivia
Nieto-Vesperinas, Manuel
contents Recently discovered reactive optical forces have nule time-average of their instantaneous values on monochromatic illumination, so that their detection suggests the use of ultrafast optics, specially in the femto and attosecond domains. By using illumination with subcycle attosecond evanescent pulses, we report a theoretical study of the time variations of instantaneous forces and the behaviour of reactive forces versus those active \bb on small resonant particles that we consider dipolar. We demonstrate how the structure of these pulses permit to obtain three remarkable novel effects on electric dipoles; namely, a lateral force, a pulling force against the canonical and Poynting momenta of the wavefield, and a levitating effect on the particle under repetition of the pulse. We expect that this study inaugurates a novel research in the area of optical manipulation. Future developments and experiments based on this theory should increase the insight and operation of the ultrafast dynamics of nanostructures.
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spellingShingle Active, reactive and instantaneous optical forces on small particles in the time domain: Ultrafast attosecond subcycle pulses
Xu, Xiaohao
Valero, Francisco J. Valdivia
Nieto-Vesperinas, Manuel
Optics
Recently discovered reactive optical forces have nule time-average of their instantaneous values on monochromatic illumination, so that their detection suggests the use of ultrafast optics, specially in the femto and attosecond domains. By using illumination with subcycle attosecond evanescent pulses, we report a theoretical study of the time variations of instantaneous forces and the behaviour of reactive forces versus those active \bb on small resonant particles that we consider dipolar. We demonstrate how the structure of these pulses permit to obtain three remarkable novel effects on electric dipoles; namely, a lateral force, a pulling force against the canonical and Poynting momenta of the wavefield, and a levitating effect on the particle under repetition of the pulse. We expect that this study inaugurates a novel research in the area of optical manipulation. Future developments and experiments based on this theory should increase the insight and operation of the ultrafast dynamics of nanostructures.
title Active, reactive and instantaneous optical forces on small particles in the time domain: Ultrafast attosecond subcycle pulses
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15917