The Imbert-Fedorov shift of paraxial light beams |
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Authors: | Bao-Ying Liu Chun-Fang Li |
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Affiliation: | a State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, PR China b Department of Physics, Shangluo University, Shaanxi 726000, PR China c Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PR China |
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Abstract: | We present a solution to the problem of reflection and transmission of a polarized paraxial light beam at an interface between two homogeneous media by using a two-form amplitude and an extension matrix to represent the vectorial angular spectrum of a three-dimensional (3D) light beam. We derive general formulas for the Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shift of the reflected and transmitted beams of a polarized paraxial light beam. The IF shift of two different types of polarized beams is calculated, and the influence of the polarization state and the polarization feature of the vectorial angular spectrum on the IF shift is discussed. |
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Keywords: | 41.20.Jb 42.25.Gy 42.25.Ja |
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