Mechanisms for optical binding

The phenomenon of optical binding is now experimentally very well established. With a recognition of the facility to collect and organize particles held in an optical trap, the related term 'optical matter' has also been gaining currency, highlighting possibilities for a significant interplay between optically induced inter-particle forces and other interactions such as chemical bonding and dispersion forces. Optical binding itself has a variety of interpretations. With some of these explanations being more prominent than others, and their applicability to some extent depending on the nature of the particles involved, a listing of these has to include the following: collective scattering, laser-dressed Casimir forces, virtual photon coupling, optically induced dipole resonance, and plasmon resonance coupling. It is the purpose of this paper to review and to establish the extent of fundamental linkages between these theoretical descriptions, recognizing the value that each has in relating the phenomenon of optical binding to the broader context of other, closely related physical measurements.

[1]  David L. Andrews,et al.  Optical binding in nanoparticle assembly: Potential energy landscapes , 2008 .

[2]  A. Salam,et al.  On the application of state sequence diagrams to the calculation of the Casimir–Polder potential , 2007 .

[3]  G. Scholes,et al.  Damping and higher multipole effects in the quantum electrodynamical model for electronic energy transfer in the condensed phase , 1997 .

[4]  L. Novotný,et al.  Van der Waals versus optical interaction between metal nanoparticles. , 2008, Optics letters.

[5]  P. C. Chaumet,et al.  Optical binding of particles with or without the presence of a flat dielectric surface , 2001, physics/0305045.

[6]  Brian Stout,et al.  Longitudinal optical binding of high optical contrast microdroplets in air. , 2006, Physical review letters.

[7]  W Sibbett,et al.  Visualization of optical binding of microparticles using a femtosecond fiber optical trap. , 2006, Optics express.

[8]  D. S. Bradshaw,et al.  Optically induced forces and torques: Interactions between nanoparticles in a laser beam , 2005 .

[9]  M Mazilu,et al.  Optical deflection and sorting of microparticles in a near-field optical geometry. , 2008, Optics express.

[10]  J. Vigoureux,et al.  Optical binding force between two Rayleigh particles , 1994 .

[11]  Ji Liang,et al.  Property of carbon nanotube tip for surface topography characterization , 2004 .

[12]  Of some theoretical significance: implications of Casimir effects , 2001, quant-ph/0105002.

[13]  David L. Andrews,et al.  Virtual photons, dipole fields and energy transfer: a quantum electrodynamical approach , 2004 .

[14]  D. S. Bradshaw,et al.  Optically induced inter-particle forces: from the bonding of dimers to optical electrostriction in molecular solids , 2006 .

[15]  T. Thirunamachandran.  Intermolecular interactions in the presence of an intense radiation field , 1980 .

[16]  D. Andrews,et al.  Nanoscale optics: Interparticle forces , 2008 .

[17]  D. S. Bradshaw,et al.  Laser-induced forces between carbon nanotubes. , 2005, Optics letters.

[18]  T. Thirunamachandran,et al.  Molecular quantum electrodynamics : an introduction to radiation-molecule interactions , 1998 .

[19]  David L. Andrews,et al.  Electrodynamic mechanism and array stability in optical binding , 2008 .

[20]  D. Iannuzzi,et al.  Casimir Forces and Quantum Electrodynamical Torques: Physics and Nanomechanics , 2007, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

[21]  Brian Stout,et al.  Optical trapping and binding in air: Imaging and spectroscopic analysis , 2008 .

[22]  A. Salam.  On the effect of a radiation field in modifying the intermolecular interaction between two chiral molecules. , 2006, The Journal of chemical physics.

[23]  Peter W. Milonni,et al.  The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics , 1993 .

[24]  E. A. Power.  Casimir-Polder potential from first principles , 2001 .

[25]  D. S. Bradshaw,et al.  Resonance energy transfer: The unified theory revisited , 2003 .

[26]  Jin Au Kong,et al.  Trapping and binding of an arbitrary number of cylindrical particles in an in-plane electromagnetic field. , 2006, Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision.

[27]  H. Casimir,et al.  The Influence of Retardation on the London-van der Waals Forces , 1948 .

[28]  Samarendra Mohanty,et al.  Optical binding between dielectric particles. , 2004, Optics express.

[29]  D. Andrews,et al.  A retarded coupling approach to intermolecular interactions , 2009 .

[30]  Christopher D. Mellor,et al.  Polarization effects in optically bound particle arrays. , 2006, Optics express.

[31]  E. A. Power.  Introductory Quantum Electrodynamics , 1964 .

[32]  Jin Au Kong,et al.  Stable optical trapping based on optical binding forces. , 2006, Physical review letters.

[33]  A. Salam.  Intermolecular interactions in a radiation field via the method of induced moments , 2006 .

[34]  David L. Andrews,et al.  Optical binding: potential energy landscapes and QED , 2008, SPIE OPTO.

[35]  Conceptualization of the Casimir effect , 2001 .