A beam of light, reflected at a planar interface, does not follow perfectly the ray optics prediction. Diffractive corrections lead to beam shifts; the reflected beam is displaced (spatial Goos-Hänchen type shifts) and/or travels in a different direction (angular Imbert-Fedorov type shifts), as compared to geometric optics. How does the degree of spatial coherence of light influence these shifts? We investigate this issue first experimentally and find that the degree of spatial coherence influences the angular beam shifts, while the spatial beam shifts are unaffected.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Loffler2012Spatial
%A Löffler, W.
%A Aiello, Andrea
%A Woerdman, J. P.
%D 2012
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review Letters
%K optics
%P 213901+
%R 10.1103/physrevlett.109.213901
%T Spatial Coherence and Optical Beam Shifts
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.213901
%V 109
%X A beam of light, reflected at a planar interface, does not follow perfectly the ray optics prediction. Diffractive corrections lead to beam shifts; the reflected beam is displaced (spatial Goos-Hänchen type shifts) and/or travels in a different direction (angular Imbert-Fedorov type shifts), as compared to geometric optics. How does the degree of spatial coherence of light influence these shifts? We investigate this issue first experimentally and find that the degree of spatial coherence influences the angular beam shifts, while the spatial beam shifts are unaffected.
@article{Loffler2012Spatial,
abstract = {{A beam of light, reflected at a planar interface, does not follow perfectly the ray optics prediction. Diffractive corrections lead to beam shifts; the reflected beam is displaced (spatial Goos-H\"{a}nchen type shifts) and/or travels in a different direction (angular Imbert-Fedorov type shifts), as compared to geometric optics. How does the degree of spatial coherence of light influence these shifts? We investigate this issue first experimentally and find that the degree of spatial coherence influences the angular beam shifts, while the spatial beam shifts are unaffected.}},
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author = {L\"{o}ffler, W. and Aiello, Andrea and Woerdman, J. P.},
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journal = {Physical Review Letters},
keywords = {optics},
month = nov,
pages = {213901+},
posted-at = {2012-11-23 09:08:56},
priority = {2},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
timestamp = {2019-02-26T15:22:34.000+0100},
title = {{Spatial Coherence and Optical Beam Shifts}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.213901},
volume = 109,
year = 2012
}