How orbital angular momentum affects beam shifts in optical reflection

By M. Merano, N. Hermosa, J. Woerdman, Andrea Aiello. 2010

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It is well known that reflection of a Gaussian light beam (TEM{sub 00}) by a planar dielectric interface leads to four beam shifts when compared to the geometrical-optics prediction. These are the spatial Goos-Haenchen (GH) shift, the angular GH shift, the spatial Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shift, and the angular IF shift. We report here, theoretically and experimentally, that endowing the beam with orbital angular momentum leads to coupling of these four shifts; this is described by a 4x4 mixing matrix.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Franco Nori
2. K. Bliokh
3. Miguel A. Alonso
4. Sahel Ashhab
5. A. Bekshaev
6. I. Georgescu
7. J. You
8. Adam Miranowicz

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Franco Nori
2. K. Bliokh

Citations in the corpus

• Internal flows and energy circulation in light beams (2010, unknown): “For instance, interaction of a paraxial beam with an oblique dielectric interface is described by the Fresnel formulas and produces AM-dependent transverse shifts of the reflected and refracted beams similar to (6.25) [33–43].”
• Theory and applications of free-electron vortex states (2017, background): “for optical vortex beams interacting with dielectric inhomogeneities [53], because subwavelength accuracy”