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johng23
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Can someone give an intuitive explanation for this effect? I didn't go through the derivation carefully, but I know that the upshot of the math is that the dipole feels a force in the direction of the intensity gradient, so it goes to the focus of the laser. But I feel like there must be some simple physical argument for why the energy is lower at high intensity, or something like that.