Optical bistability driven by the light-induced forces between metal nanoparticles
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Optical Trapping of Nanoparticles
Published on: January 15, 2013
Sergey V Perminov1, Vladimir P Drachev, Sergey G Rautian
1A.V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. serge@isp.nsc.ru
Optics Letters
|December 17, 2008
Abstract:
A motion-induced optical bistability is shown for a metal nanoparticle dimer that is plasmon coupled and bound with dispersion (colloidal) forces. The effect does not require any material nonlinearity.

