Opposite Goos–Hänchen shifts for transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic beams at the interface associated with single-negative materials

Abstract

Goos-Hänchen shifts are investigated when total reflection occurs at the interfaces associated with single-negative materials (SNMs). A general rule for judging the direction of the Goos-Hänchen lateral shift concerning lossless media is obtained: Whether the lateral shift is positive or negative depends on the sign of micro1micro2 for TE-polarized incident beams and epsilon1epsilon2 for TM-polarized incident beams. It was theoretically demonstrated that, at the interface associated with SNMs, TE- and TM-polarized incident beams experience opposite Goos-Hänchen lateral shifts. An effective and simple approach to discriminating epsilon-negative material and micro-negative material is proposed.

Goos-Hänchen shift from an anisotropic metamaterial slab

“…4b, the solid line is for µ = 2, µ = 0 5, = −1, and the sign of the Goos-Hänchen shift is positive, the dot line is for µ = −2, µ = −0 5, = 1, and the sign of the Goos-Hänchen shift is negative. Furthermore, the Goos-Hänchen shift increase with the increasing of incident angle, which is similar to the case of the isotropic media [22,23].…”

“…When a wave is reflected at the interface of two different media, there is a lateral shift for reflected waves, just well known as the Goos-Hänchen effect(or the lateral shift) [10][11][12][13]. One of the interesting phenomena is that when a wave impings on isotropic metamaterial, a negative Hänchen shift will occur [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. In fact, the metamaterial in experiments are strongly anisotropic and lossy [25,26], so that they have different properties from 2: as is shown in Fig.…”

Giant positive or negative lateral shift of acoustic wave on reflection from weakly absorbing real or complex bulk module media

“…For a finite-width light beam, the incident beam and the reflected beam at the interface are laterally shifted because each plane-wave component undergoes a different phase change. This lateral beam shift was foreseen by Newton and demonstrated by Goos and Hänchen [1], and has been widely analyzed [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

Goos-Hã„nchen Shift at the Surface of Chiral Negative Refractive Media

“…Recently, the GH shift associated with negative refractive media attracts much attention. For instance, Berman [13], Lakhtakia [14], Qing et al [15], and Hu et al [16] extensively studied the lateral shift at an interface between positive and negative refractive media. Shadrivov et al [17] further investigated a giant GH shift in reflection from a layered structure containing a layer of left-handed material.…”