Goos-Hänchen effect of an ordinary refracted beam

Abstract

When there is total reflection on an isotropic or an anisotropic interface, the reflected ray suffers a displacement on the interface. This effect, which is known as the Goos-Hänchen effect, has been studied by a great number of authors. If an isotropic-uniaxial interface is considered, the condition of total reflection for one of the refracted rays can be fulfilled whereas the other subsists as a propagating wave. In this paper, we analyse and determine analytically the complex displacement that the ray associated with this propagating wave suffers. Representing the ray by a beam with a Gaussian distribution of amplitudes, we show how this displacement is modified by different configurations of the interface and of the incident waves.

Acknowledgments

This work was carried out with the support of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).