Physica Scripta
Birefringence of lateral shifts in reflection and transmission based on milnor polynomial and quantum tunnelling in induced chiral medium
Hamad Ali, Abdul Basit, Fuli Li, Xiaojie Li, Xuecheng Cao
Abstract
Abstract We theoretically investigate birefringence of lateral Goos-Hänchen (GH) shift in a tunnelling chiral atomic medium. The Milnor polynomial of controlled fields and tunnelling modulate the light-mater interactions. We analyze the GH shift for right- and left-circularly polarized (RCP and LCP) beams for varying incident angles. We found a lossless condition R (+) + T (+) = 1 for RCP beams at the incident angle θ i = π /3, while LCP beams shows loss R (−) + T (−) + A (−) = 1 and A (−) = 0.2. The lateral shift in reflection of RCP beam varies in range of 0 λ ≤ S r ( + ) ≤ 60 λ and transmission of RCP beam varies in the range of 0 λ ≤ S t ( + ) ≤ 100 λ at θ i = π /3, while the shift in LCP beam decreases 0 λ ≤ S r ( − ) ≤ 40 λ and transmission increases 0 λ ≤ S t ( − ) ≤ 150 λ for the same parameters. Further, for incident angle θ i = π /4, we found an increase in lateral shifts S r , t ( − ) ≤ 150 λ for RCP and 0 λ ≤ S r , t (