Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov beam shifts: an overview
By K. Bliokh, Andrea Aiello. 2012
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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 rotations. Using geometrical-optics coordinate frames accompanying the beams, we construct an effective Jones matrix characterizing spatial-dispersion properties of the interface. This results in a unified self-consistent description of the Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts (the latter being also known as the spin Hall effect of light). Our description reveals the intimate relation of the transverse Imbert–Fedorov shift to the geometric phases between constituent waves in the beam spectrum and to the angular momentum conservation for the whole beam. Both spatial and angular shifts are considered as well as their analogues for higher-order vortex beams carrying intrinsic orbital angular momentum. We also give a brief overview of various extensions and generalizations of the basic beam-shift phenomena and related effects.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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Citations in the corpus
- Artificial gauge fields in materials and engineered systems (2017, unknown): “Further spin-dependent beam displacements are predicted for light beams passing through or reflected by an interface between two homogeneous media [407,408], a particular case being the Goos-Hänchen and Fedorov-Imbert effects for total internal reflexion [409,410,411,412].”
- Transverse and longitudinal angular momenta of light (2015, methodology): “The latter effect is now known as the spin-Hall effectof light or Imbert–Fedorov shift [63–73], and the extrinsic transverse orbital AM was intensively considered in this context (see [73] for a review).”
- Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics (2023, background): “There are two typical types: Goos–Hänchen shifts stem from the dispersion of the reflection or transmission coefficients, whereas Imbert–Fedorov shifts (also known as the spin-Hall effect) are associated with the spin–orbital interaction of light 196–198 .”