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Transformation optics for surface phenomena: Engineering the Goos-Hänchen effect

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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.
Journal: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
ISSN: 1098-0121
Issue: 3
Volume: 95
Publication year:2017
CSS-citation score:1
Authors:International