Correcting Ray Optics at Curved Dielectric Microresonator Interfaces: Phase-Space Unification of Fresnel Filtering and the Goos-Hänchen Shift

Henning Schomerus and Martina Hentschel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243903 – Published 22 June 2006

Abstract

We develop an amended ray-optics description for reflection at the curved dielectric interfaces of optical microresonators which improves the agreement with wave optics by about one order of magnitude. The corrections are separated into two contributions of similar magnitude, corresponding to ray displacement in independent quantum-phase-space directions, which can be identified with Fresnel filtering and the Goos-Hänchen shift, respectively. Hence we unify two effects which only have been studied separately in the past.

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  • Received 8 March 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.243903

©2006 American Physical Society

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Henning Schomerus1 and Martina Hentschel2

  • 1Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom
  • 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany

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Vol. 96, Iss. 24 — 23 June 2006

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