An experiment on the shifts of reflected C-lines
Autor: | Löffler, W., Nye, J. F., Hannay, J. H. |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.1088/2040-8978/16/8/085703 |
Popis: | An experiment is described that tests theoretical predictions on how C-lines incident obliquely on a surface behave on reflection. C-lines in a polarised wave are the analogues of the optical vortices carried by a complex scalar wave, which is the usual model for describing light and other electromagnetic waves. The centre of a laser beam that carries a (degenerate) C-line is shifted on reflection by the well-known Goos-H\"anchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects, but the C-line itself splits into two, both of which are shifted longitudinally and laterally; their shifts are different from that of the beam centre. To maximise the effect to be measured, internal reflection in a glass prism close to the critical angle was used. In a simple situation like this two recently published independent theories of C-line reflection overlap and it is shown that their predictions are identical. The measured differences in the lateral shifts of the two reflected C-lines are compared with theoretical expectations over a range of incidence angles. Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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