Reply to “Comment on ‘The Imbert-Fedorov shift of paraxial light beams’”

This is a reply to the Comment by Bliokh on our paper that appeared in Opt. Commun. 281 (2008) 3427. After a brief introduction of the representation theory of vector electromagnetic beams advanced in a recent paper, I point out that the Imbert-Fedorov effect is the evidence of the change of the beam parameter Θ and the polarization ellipticity σ caused by the reflection or transmission process in the linear approximation. Then I explain that it is because the linear approximation of the incident beam that we used in our paper had been assumed in previous works that we reproduced their results.