Reflection and Refraction of the Laser Light Pulse at the Vacuum-Medium Interface
Optics
2015-12-24 v2
Abstract
By generalizing the well known results for reflection and refraction of plane waves at the vacuum-medium interface to Gaussian light beams, we obtain analytic formulas for reflection and refraction of the TM and TE laser light pulses. This enables us to give a possible explanation why no reflection was observed in light pulse photographs in some vicinity of the air-resin interface, given in L. Gao, J. Liang, C. Li, and L. V. Wang, Nature 516 (2014) 74-77. We suggest how to modify the experimental setup so as to observe the reflected pulse.
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@article{arxiv.1511.08709,
title = {Reflection and Refraction of the Laser Light Pulse at the Vacuum-Medium Interface},
author = {W Żakowicz and A. A. Skorupski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08709},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures, 2 videos