Transformation optics for surface phenomena: Engineering the Goos-Hänchen effect
Journal article, 2017

Transformation optics, a geometrical recipe for metamaterial design, was originally conceived as a tool to smoothly modify the trajectory of light using continuous coordinate transformations. Here, we show how discontinuous transformations can be used as a geometric framework to understand and manipulate phenomena at the surface of nanophotonic structures. In particular, we show how the Goos-Hänchen shift - a lateral shift exhibited by totally reflected beams - can be tailored and we provide a classification and complete analytical description of this effect in existing complex media.

Author

L. Lambrechts

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Vincent Ginis

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Jan Danckaert

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Philippe Tassin

Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

Physical Review B

24699950 (ISSN) 24699969 (eISSN)

Vol. 95 3 Article no 035427 - 035427

Subject Categories

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.95.035427

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4/30/2018