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Measurement of the Goos–Hänchen shift in a microwave cavity

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Published 3 February 2011 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation J Unterhinninghofen et al 2011 New J. Phys. 13 023013 DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/023013

1367-2630/13/2/023013

Abstract

We present our measurements of the Goos–Hänchen shift (GHS) in a two-dimensional dielectric microwave cavity. Microwave beams are generated by a suitable superposition of the spherical waves generated by an array of antennas; the resulting beams are then reflected at a planar interface. By measuring the electric field including its phase, Poynting vectors of the incoming and reflected beams can be extracted, which in turn are used to find the incoming angle and the positions where the beam hits the interface and where it is reflected. These positions directly yield the GHS. The results are compared to the classical Artmann result and a numerical calculation using Gaussian beams.

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