• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 7, Issue 9, 845 (2009)
Jianping Bai1 and Yaoju Zhang2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang 472000, China
  • 2College of Physics and Electronic Information, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20090709.0845 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jianping Bai, Yaoju Zhang. Large negative Goos-H nchen shift from a wedge-shaped thin film[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2009, 7(9): 845 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The analytical expression for the complex amplitude of light reflected from a wedge-shaped thin film is derived. For plane wave incidence, a simple ray tracing approach is used to calculate Goos-H?nchen (GH) shifts; and for non-plane wave incidence, for example, a Gaussian beam, the angular spectrum approach of plane wave is used in simulation. The two approaches predict that a wedge-shaped thin film can produce large negative longitudinal GH shifts. Although the reflectivity is small near the condition of resonance, the large negative GH shifts can be more easily detected in comparison with the shift from a plane-parallel film in vacuum.