TY - JOUR
T1 - Optomechanical measurement of the Abraham force in an adiabatic liquid-core optical-fiber waveguide
AU - Choi, H.
AU - Park, M.
AU - Elliott, D. S.
AU - Oh, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Physical Society.
PY - 2017/5/8
Y1 - 2017/5/8
N2 - We report quantitative experimental measurements of the Abraham force associated with a propagating optical wave. We isolate this force using a guided light wave undergoing an adiabatic mode transformation along a liquid-filled hollow optical fiber (HOF). Utilizing this light intensity distribution within the liquid, we generate a time-averaged, nonvanishing Abraham force density, while simultaneously suppressing the Abraham-Minkowski force density. The incident laser field induces a linear axial displacement of the air-liquid interface inside the HOF, which provides a direct experimental measure of the Abraham force density. We find good agreement between the experimental results and theoretical determinations of the Abraham force density.
AB - We report quantitative experimental measurements of the Abraham force associated with a propagating optical wave. We isolate this force using a guided light wave undergoing an adiabatic mode transformation along a liquid-filled hollow optical fiber (HOF). Utilizing this light intensity distribution within the liquid, we generate a time-averaged, nonvanishing Abraham force density, while simultaneously suppressing the Abraham-Minkowski force density. The incident laser field induces a linear axial displacement of the air-liquid interface inside the HOF, which provides a direct experimental measure of the Abraham force density. We find good agreement between the experimental results and theoretical determinations of the Abraham force density.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053817
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053817
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026909544
VL - 95
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
SN - 1050-2947
IS - 5
M1 - 053817
ER -