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We develop an amended ray optics description for reflection at the curved dielectric interfaces of optical microresonators which improves the agreement with wave optics by about one order of magnitude. The corrections are separated into two…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Schomerus , Martina Hentschel

By using a weak measurement technique, we investigated the interplay between the angular and lateral Goos-Haenchen shift of a focused He-Ne laser beam for incidence near the critical angle. We verified that this interplay dramatically…

The law of reflection and Snell's law are among the tenets of geometrical optics. Corrections to these laws in wave optics are respectively known as the angular Goos-H\"anchen shift and Fresnel filtering. In this paper we give a positive…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-27 Jörg B. Götte , Susumu Shinohara , Martina Hentschel

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

For total reflection, the Goos-Hanchen (GH) shift is proportional to the wavelength of the laser beam. At critical angles, such a shift is instead proportional to the square root of the product of the beam waist and wavelength. By using the…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-02 Manoel Araujo , Silvania Carvalho , Stefano De Leo

Optical weak measurements are a powerful tool for measuring small shifts of optical paths. When applied to the measurement of the Goos-Haenchen shift, in particular, a special step must be added to its protocol: the removal of the relative…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-15 Manoel P. Araújo , Stefano De Leo , Gabriel G. Maia

We consider reflection and transmission of polarized paraxial light beams at a plane dielectric interface. The field transformations taking into account a finite beam width are described based on the plane-wave representation and geometric…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Andrea Aiello

We study the classical optics effects known as Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts, occurring when reflecting a bounded light beam from a planar surface, by using a quantum-mechanical formalism. This new approach allows us to…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-16 Falk Töppel , Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

Ray optics is a useful tool even in the regime where, actually, full wave-calculations would be appropriate. However, wave-inspired adjustments are needed to ensure the accuracy of ray-based predictions. These corrections are known as the…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-25 Pia Adam , Jakob Kreismann , Martina Hentschel

We explore the analogy between following the motion of a reflected wave packet, and a quantum measurement of the spatial delay imposed on the particle by the scattering potential. It is shown that converting such delays into temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 D. Sokolovski , A. Uranga , Y. Caudano

We study, analytically and numerically, reflection and transmission of an arbitrarily polarized vortex beam on an interface separating two dielectric media and derive general expressions for linear and angular Goos-Hanchen and…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-24 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Ilya V. Shadrivov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We present here a compactly formulated application of the previously posted general formalism of the reflection of Gaussian beams at a dielectric interface ({arXiv:0710.1643v2 [physics.optics]}). Specifically, we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-28 A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

We consider the lateral shift of a light beam reflecting from a dielectric slab backed by a metal. It is found that the lateral shift of the reflected beam can be negative while the intensity of reflected beam is almost equal to the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li-Gang Wang , Hong Chen , Nian-Hua Liu , Shi-Yao Zhu

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…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chun-Fang Li

The interference between optical beams of different polarizations plays a fundamental role in reproducing the optical analog of the electron spin weak measurement. The extraordinary point in optical weak measurements is represented by the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Manoel P. Araujo , Stefano De Leo , Gabriel G. Maia

We investigate experimentally the role of spatial coherence on optical beam shifts. This topic has been the subject of recent theoretical debate. We consider Gaussian Schell-model beams, with different spatial degrees of coherence,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michele Merano , Gabriele Umbriaco , Giampaolo Mistura

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…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Hentschel , H. Schomerus

When an optical beam propagates through dielectric blocks, its optical phase is responsible for the path of the beam. In particular, the first order Taylor expansion of the geometrical part reproduces the path predicted by the Snell and…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-23 Silvania A. Carvalho , Stefano De Leo

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

As a paraxial wave packet is reflected or refracted from a planar interface separating two material media, it experiences spatial and angular shifts of its center position with respect to predictions of the geometrical ray picture. These…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Yahong Chen , Sergey A. Ponomarenko