Unified theory for Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects

Details Unified theory for Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects Unified theory for Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects

2006-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611047v2

Physics

Optics

15 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013811

A unified theory is advanced to describe both the lateral Goos-H\"{a}nchen (GH) effect and the transverse Imbert-Fedorov (IF) effect, through representing the vector angular spectrum of a 3-dimensional light beam in terms of a 2-form angular spectrum consisting of its 2 orthogonal polarized components. From this theory, the quantization characteristics of the GH and IF displacements are obtained, and the Artmann formula for the GH displacement is derived. It is found that the eigenstates of the GH displacement are the 2 orthogonal linear polarizations in this 2-form representation, and the eigenstates of the IF displacement are the 2 orthogonal circular polarizations. The theoretical predictions are found to be in agreement with recent experimental results.

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