Observation of microsphere movement driven by optical pulse: comment.

Opt Lett

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Published: March 2012

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study discusses fiber-delivered, pulsed laser propulsion of glass microspheres and challenges the idea that radiation pressure alone can account for their maximum velocities.
  • It suggests that the actual mechanism behind the propulsion involves mass recoil associated with dielectric breakdown occurring near or on the microsphere's surface.
  • These findings provide new insights into the physics of laser propulsion and the processes that enhance the propulsion of these microspheres.

Article Abstract

We show that fiber-delivered, pulsed laser propulsion of glass microspheres, as observed in a recent Letter [Opt. Lett. 36, 1996 (2011).], due to only radiation pressure cannot explain the measured maximum velocity of microspheres. Our considerations, based on the reported results, indicate that the main momentum transfer mechanism is due to mass recoil that very likely follows a dielectric breakdown near or on the surface of the microsphere.

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