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Fresnel laws at curved dielectric interfaces of microresonators

Optics 2009-09-25 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We discuss curvature corrections to Fresnel's laws for the reflection and transmission of light at a non-planar refractive-index boundary. The reflection coefficients are obtained from the resonances of a dielectric disk within a sequential-reflection model. The Goos-H\"anchen effect for curved light fronts at a planar interface can be adapted to provide a qualitative and quantitative extension of the ray model which explains the observed deviations from Fresnel's laws.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0111160,
  title  = {Fresnel laws at curved dielectric interfaces of microresonators},
  author = {M. Hentschel and H. Schomerus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0111160},
  year   = {2009}
}

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submitted to Phys. Rev. E