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Two results about the planewave response of an isotropic, dielectric--magnetic, homogeneous, planar slab are deduced when the real parts of both the permittivity and the permeability are altered from positive to negative. First, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lakhtakia

We demonstrate the transformation of Gaussian input beams into super-Gaussian beams with a quasi flat-top transverse profile by means of the conical refraction phenomenon by adjusting the ratio between the ring radius and the waist radius…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-27 A. Turpin , Yu. V. Loiko , T. K. Kalkandkiev , H. Tomizawa , J. Mompart

Graphene-assisted resonant transmission and enhanced Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift are investigated in a two-prism frustrated-total-internal-reflection configuration. Due to the excitation of surface plasmons induced by graphene in low terahertz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yi Chen , Yue Ban , Qi-Biao Zhu , Xi Chen

We present a theoretical study of the Goos-H\"anchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts for a fundamental Gaussian beam impinging on a surface coated with a single layer of graphene. We show that the graphene surface conductibility $\sigma(\omega)$…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-18 Simon Grosche , Marco Ornigotti , Alexander Szameit

The splitting of a high-order optical vortex into a constellation of unit vortices, upon total reflection, is described and analyzed. The vortex constellation generalizes, in a local sense, the familiar longitudinal Goos-H\"anchen and…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-15 Mark R. Dennis , Jörg B. Götte

We present a method to analyse the coupling of lateral displacements in nanoscale structures, in particular waveguide grating mirrors (WGM), into the phase of a reflected Gaussian beam using a finite-difference time-domain simulation. Such…

When a beam of light is reflected by a smooth surface its behavior deviates from geometrical optics predictions. Such deviations are quantified by the so-called spatial and angular Goos-Haenchen (GH) and Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts of the…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-11 Andrea Aiello

(Abridged) Context. To directly image rocky exoplanets in reflected (polarized) light, future space- and ground-based high-contrast imagers and telescopes aim to reach extreme contrasts at close separations from the star. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 R. G. van Holstein , C. U. Keller , F. Snik , S. P. Bos

We study the Goos-H\"anchen shifts for Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential. The massless Dirac-like equation was used to describe the scattered fermions by such potential configuration. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We present experiments on Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) induced beam shifts in optical reflection. Specifically, we observe the spatial Goos-H\"anchen shift in which the beam is displaced parallel to the plane of incidence and the angular…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-29 N. Hermosa , M. Merano , A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

An exact analogy between wave mechanics in quantum theory and the scalar wave treatment of optics emerges from the marriage of Newtonian formulation of geometrical optics [1] and the ``formal quantum theory of light rays'' [2]. Here the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Sayanho Biswas , Kolahal Bhattacharya

Spatial characteristics of the optical-vortex (OV) beams created during the Gaussian beam diffraction by a grating with groove bifurcation are analyzed theoretically and numerically. In contrast to previous works, condition of small-angle…

Optics · Physics 2009-07-16 A. Bekshaev , O. Orlinska , M. Vasnetsov

We develop a novel technique to measure small angular and lateral displacements of structured light beams. The technique relies on using high-order Hermite-Gaussian (HG) and Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes, which have well-defined symmetry…

Using the energy spectrum of a system made of graphene subjected to a linear barrier potential, we study the Goos-H\"anshen shifts. The calculation is done by first determining the corresponding phase shifts via the transmission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Miloud Mekkaoui , Radouane El Kinani , Ahmed Jellal

Since the discovery of the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shift in the 1940s, its deep connections to Fourier transforms and causality have led to widespread interest and applications in optics, acoustics, and quantum mechanics. Control of the shift…

In this paper, we present a systematic study of beam shifts and angular momenta of paraxial vortex beams at air-left-handed material (LHM) interfaces. It is shown that, compared to their counterparts at air-right-handed material (RHM)…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-27 Zhicheng Xiao , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

The longitudinal and the transverse beam shifts, namely, the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and the Spin-Hall (SH) shifts are usually observed at planar interfaces. It has recently been shown that the transverse SH shift may also arise due to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Soni , S. Mansha , S. Dutta Gupta , A. Banerjee , N. Ghosh

We consider the propagation of Gaussian beams in a waveguide with gain and loss in the paraxial approximation governed by the Schr\"odinger equation. We derive equations of motion for the beam in the semiclassical limit that are valid when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Eva-Maria Graefe , Alexander Rush , Roman Schubert

A concise method of deriving expressions for Gaussian-like solutions of the paraxial and d'Alembert equations is presented. This method is based on the Hankel transform. Choosing some Gaussian base functions with slight modifications of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Tomasz Radożycki

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams reflected from a multi-layered dielectric experience a shift in their centroid that is different than that from a single interface. This has been previously investigated for linearly polarized beams and, to a…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-23 Mark T. Lusk , Mark E. Siemens , Guillermo F. Quinteiro