Abstract

The photophoretic asymmetry factors (PAFs) for an absorptive dielectric circular cylinder, located near a perfectly conducting and totally reflecting corner space are derived and computed. The method used in this analysis relies on the modal expansion method in cylindrical coordinates, the classical method of images, and the translational addition theorem of cylindrical wave functions. Initially, the components of the internal electric field vector are obtained stemming from an analysis of the scattering. Subsequently, the solution is used to integrate to the normalized intensity function over the cylinder’s volume to obtain the longitudinal (L) and transverse (T) PAFs. Both TM- and TE-polarized plane progressive waves with arbitrary incidence (in the polar plane) are considered. Attention is given to varying the dimensionless size parameter of the cylinder, the angle of incidence of the incoming waves, and the dimensionless distance parameters from the corner space. Numerical examples illustrate the analysis and demonstrate the net effect of the totally reflecting corner space on the L- and T-PAFs, where negative, positive, and neutral values have been predicted. The results are relevant in applications related to the emergence of the photophoretic force and torque on an absorptive particle located near surfaces and topics in electromagnetic/optical scattering, particle manipulation and assembly, optically bound matter, light–matter interactions, and photopheresis.

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