Propulsion and Angular Stabilization of Dust Particles in a Laser Cavity. II
- 1 December 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 38 (13) , 5290-5292
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1709316
Abstract
Certain dust particles exhibit steady rectilinear motion when situated in the standing light wave inside a laser cavity. Some observations and a simple theory are presented which show that these particles are oriented by the laser beam. In addition, semiquantitative calculations are given which indicate that the driving force and stabilizing torque are radiometric in origin.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- PROPULSION AND ANGULAR STABILIZATION OF DUST PARTICLES IN A LASER CAVITYApplied Physics Letters, 1966