• DocumentCode
    733556
  • Title

    Generating optical tractor beams of improved stability with metasurfaces

  • Author

    Pfeiffer, Carl ; Cheng Zhang ; Guo, L. Jay ; Grbic, Anthony

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A tractor beam is a propagation invariant beam that pulls objects towards a light source. Here, an efficient tractor beam with improved stability is generated by illuminating a dielectric metasurface with a Gaussian beam.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; optical metamaterials; Gaussian beam; dielectric metasurface; light source; optical tractor beams; propagation invariant beam; stability; Agricultural machinery; Charge carrier processes; Dielectrics; Force; Laser beams; Optical propagation; Particle beams;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183996
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=733556