Table 1.

Experimentally determined steady state velocities of 2 µm diameter SPBs $v_{SPB}$ for the two pulse shapes displayed in Figure 15 as a function of the pulse length. For the sinusoidal pulse shape, the experimentally determined average SPB acceleration $a_{SPB}$ within a pulse is also given.

	Rectangular	Sinusoidal	Sinusoidal
$T$/ms	$v_{SPB}\pm \Delta v_{SPB}$/µm/s	$v_{SPB}\pm \Delta v_{SPB}$/µm/s	$a_{SPB}\pm \Delta a_{SPB}$/µm/s2
120	126 ± 16	115 ± 30	13.1 ± 3.8
140	111 ± 24	142 ± 39	12.7 ± 3.4
160	79 ± 13	113 ± 31	12.4 ± 3.0
180	85 ± 23	110 ± 31	9.2 ± 2.0
200	106 ± 29	104 ± 30	3.7 ± 0.7
400	110 ± 31	96 ± 27	3.9 ± 0.8
600	73 ± 18	68 ± 18	2.7 ± 0.6
800	111 ± 30	64 ± 17	2.8 ± 1.2