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Physical Review A

Negative and positive Goos-Hänchen shifts of partially coherent light fields

Ziauddin Ziauddin, You-Lin Chuang, Ray‐Kuang Lee

Published Jan 5, 2015• 38 citations
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Abstract

The negative and positive Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shifts in reflected light are revisited for a partial coherent light incident on a cavity. A three-level dilute gaseous atomic medium, which follows two-photon Raman transitions, is considered in a cavity. The anomalous (negative group index) and normal (positive group index) dispersions of the intracavity medium lead to negative and positive GH shifts, respectively. The effects of beam width, spatial coherence, and mode index of partial coherent light fields are studied on the negative and positive GH shifts. It is observed that the amplitude of negative and positive GH shifts are relatively large for a small range of beam width and for a small value of spatial coherence of partial coherent light beams. The amplitude of GH shifts becomes small for large beam width and spatial coherence of incident light. Further, the distortion in the reflected light field increases when the amplitude of the GH shifts increases and vice versa.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.91.013803

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Goos–Hänchen (GH) shifts in the reflected and transmitted light are investigated for p-polarized partially coherent light beams incident on a cavity having a quantum dot (QD) system as the intracavity medium. The coherent coupling between the two quantum dots via a tunneling field leads to tunneling-induced transparency and giant Kerr nonlinearity with vanishing absorption. The Kerr nonlinearity of the double QD system thus increases the amplitude of GH shifts in the reflected and transmitted light. The influence of the spatial coherence and the beam width of the partially coherent light fields on GH shifts in the reflected and transmitted light are also investigated, and large GH shifts are reported for the small range of the spatial coherence and the beam width of the partially coherent light field.
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A gain-assisted model is considered to study the Goos-H$\stackrel{\ifmmode \ddot{}\else \"{}\fi{}}{\text{a}}$nchen (GH) shift behavior in the reflected and transmitted light. In this model, a probe light is incident on a cavity containing three-level dilute gaseous atomic medium. The atom-field interaction follows two-photon Raman transitions, and the dielectric susceptibility of the medium exhibits dispersion and gain properties [L. J. Wang, A. Kuzmich, and A. Dogariu, Nature (London) 406, 227 (2000)]. Under appropriate conditions, two gain peaks are observed with anomalous dispersion between the peaks, whereas normal dispersion can be observed at and around the gain maxima. The manipulation of the detuning associated with the probe light field which interacts with the intracavity medium during its propagation through the cavity can lead to a control over negative and positive GH shift in the reflected and transmitted light beam via the anomalous and normal dispersion of the medium.
Control of Goos-H$\stackrel{\ifmmode \ddot{}\else \"{}\fi{}}{\text{a}}$nchen (GH) shift in reflected and transmitted light is revisited for a Gaussian light incident on a cavity. The intracavity atomic medium follows duplicated two-level atomic configurations where two fields, i.e., a strong control field and a relatively weak probe field are employed [F. A. Hashmi and M. A. Bouchene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 213601 (2008)]. The coherent control is achieved via phase shift $\ensuremath{\phi}$ between control and probe fields. The effect of incident light width on negative or positive GH shifts and distortion in the reflected and transmitted light is investigated.
The influence of the Kerr nonlinearity on the group index of a dispersive intracavity medium is revisited using a Raman gain based scheme to obtain amplitude control of the Goos–Hänchen (GH) shift in the reflected light. The intracavity medium exhibits a Raman gain process which is accompanied by anomalous dispersion, i.e., superluminal pulse propagation (Dogariu et al 2000 Nature 406 277). In the presence of a Kerr field, the gain–dispersion properties of the intracavity medium are modified, which leads to enhancement in the positive and negative group indices of the medium. The behavior of the GH shift in the reflected light due to the enhancement in the group indices in the presence of the Kerr field is investigated, and relatively large positive and negative GH shifts can be obtained.