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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 37, Issue 19, Pages 4038-4040Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.004038
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- NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Office (NIAC) [NNX11AR40G]
- NASA [137563, NNX11AR40G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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A wave optics numerical analysis of the force and torque on a semicylindrical optical wing is presented. Comparisons with a recently reported ray optics analysis indicate good agreement when the radius is large compared with the wavelength of light, as expected. Surprisingly, we find that the dominant rotationally stable angle of attack at alpha approximate to -15 degrees is relatively invariant to changes in radius and refractive index. However, the torsional stiffness at the equilibrium point is found to increase, approximately, as the cubic power of the radius. Quasi-resonant internal modes of light produce complex size-dependent variations of the angle and magnitude of the optical lift force. (c) 2012 Optical Society of America
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