Resolving Discrepancy between Theoretical and Experimental Optical Trapping Forces Using Effects of Beam Waist and Trapping Position Displacement due to Gravity
(1) Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu Shiga, 525-8677, Japan;(2) Currently with NEC, Kawasaki 210-0012, Japan;(3) Currently with NEC, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0841, Japan
Abstract:
Optical trapping forces of polystyrene microspheres are analyzed both theoretically and experimentally, and comparisons are made between the two. Discrepancies are mainly caused by straight-ray approximation for axial trapping, and by trapping-position vertical displacement due to gravity for transverse trapping.