'Virtual Optical Pulling Force'
Sergey Lepeshov
'Virtual Optical Pulling Force'
Abstract: The momentum conservation law imposes a fundamental restriction on the optical pressure to be repulsive in paraxial fields. Herein, we revisit the issue of optical forces by their analytic continuation to the complex frequency plane and considering their behavior in transient. We show that the exponential excitation at the complex frequency offers an intriguing ability to achieve a pulling force for a passive resonator of any shape and composition even in the paraxial approximation. The approach is implemented for the Fabry-Perot cavity and a high refractive index dielectric nanoparticle, a fruitful platform for intracellular spectroscopy and lab-on-a-chip technologies where the proposed technique may found unprecedented capabilities.
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