Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
850178 Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 2013 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

It is shown on the basis of different approaches that the density of optically induced forces applied to a homogeneous optical medium embedded in a simplest 1D structure in a form of a plane optical resonator is equal to zero. In particular, the density forces calculated on the base of the energetic approach, where no assumptions about physical nature of optically induced forces are used, are also equal to zero. At the same time the same forces calculated by means of the approach based on the Lorentz force are different from zero. A conclusion is derived that there is an additional type of optically induced force which compensates the Lorentz density forces. Thus, the Lorentz force approach used for calculation of the density of optically induced force is inconsistent.

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