Significant deformations and propagation variations of Laguerre-Gaussian beams reflected and transmitted at a dielectric interface
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We observe TM and TE Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) light beams reflected and transmitted at a dielectric interface near critical incidence. The intensity distribution of the reflected beam is transversely deformed near the beam waist, and that of the transmitted beam is similar to that of a diagonal Hermite-Gaussian beam. The former rotates around the optical axis by approximately pi/2 with propagation, and the latter returns to that of the incident LG beam. These observations agree well with numerical calculations based on an angular spectral analysis and are attributable to the helical wavefront of the LG beams, the sharp incidence-angle dependence of the Fresnel reflection and transmission coefficients, and the Gouy phase.
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The Berry phase and spin Hall effect allow immediate generalizations to the case of higher-order beams with vortices bearing intrinsic orbital angular momentum.
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- Authors
- Okuda, H., & Sasada, H.
- Affiliations
- Keio University (JP)
- ORCID
- Sasada, Hiroyuki
- Venue
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 2008-03-17
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 881
- ISSN
- 1084-7529 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8532
- OpenAlex
- W1993961235
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 2.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Keywords
- Laguerre-Gaussian beams, dielectric interfaces, helical wavefronts, Gouy phase, beam deformation, Hermite-Gaussian beams, incident angle dependence, angular momentum of light
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