Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 7, Issue 9, 845(2009)

Large negative Goos-H nchen shift from a wedge-shaped thin film

Jianping Bai1 and Yaoju Zhang2
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  • 1School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang 472000, China
  • 2College of Physics and Electronic Information, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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    The analytical expression for the complex amplitude of light reflected from a wedge-shaped thin film is derived. For plane wave incidence, a simple ray tracing approach is used to calculate Goos-H?nchen (GH) shifts; and for non-plane wave incidence, for example, a Gaussian beam, the angular spectrum approach of plane wave is used in simulation. The two approaches predict that a wedge-shaped thin film can produce large negative longitudinal GH shifts. Although the reflectivity is small near the condition of resonance, the large negative GH shifts can be more easily detected in comparison with the shift from a plane-parallel film in vacuum.

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    Jianping Bai, Yaoju Zhang, "Large negative Goos-H nchen shift from a wedge-shaped thin film," Chin. Opt. Lett. 7, 845 (2009)

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    Received: Dec. 12, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 22, 2009

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20090709.0845

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