Refraction of a three-dimensional beam in uniaxial crystal-isotropic medium interfaces in presence of inhibited reflection

Claudia E. Vanney; Liliana Ines Perez

doi:10.1117/12.591600

21 October 2004 Refraction of a three-dimensional beam in uniaxial crystal-isotropic medium interfaces in presence of inhibited reflection

Claudia E. Vanney, Liliana Ines Perez

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Proceedings Volume 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.591600
Event: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, 2004, Porlamar, Venezuela

Abstract

We propose a generalization of Artmann's method for three-dimensional beams. This generalization, that does not consider a symmetry coordinate for the incident beam, allows its use in non-isotropic interfaces. We apply it particularly to the study of the refraction of a beam that is limited in two directions and that impinges on a uniaxial crystal-isotropic medium interface in presence of inhibited reflection. As known, the direction of the energy flux of a three-dimensional incident beam can be obtained (to first order and considering paraxial approximation) from the interference patterns of two two-dimensional beams. Each beam can be obtained from the superposition of two plane waves. In the first beam, the normals to the wave fronts are contained in the same incidence plane and they impinge with different angles; in the second, they are contained in different planes of incidence but with the same angle. We show that the refracted ray, in presence of inhibited reflection, suffers a lateral displacement that is not contained in the plane of incidence. The refraction of the first two-dimensional wave packet takes into account the longitudinal displacement whereas the refraction of the second allows us to calculate the transversal displacement.

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Claudia E. Vanney and Liliana Ines Perez "Refraction of a three-dimensional beam in uniaxial crystal-isotropic medium interfaces in presence of inhibited reflection", Proc. SPIE 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, (21 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.591600

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