Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7929812 | Optics Communications | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
An optical spanner is a light beam that can exert a torque on a microscopic object. When a circularly polarized beam irradiates semiconductors, the output light becomes partially circularly polarized. Thus the total angular momentum of the light beam is changed, which leads to a torque, creating an optical spanner on the semiconductor. In this letter, we investigate this kind of optical spanner in detail, and its electric and magnetic control are discussed.
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Authors
Houquan Liu,