Imbert–Fedorov effect

The Imbert–Fiodaraŭ effect (named after Fiodar Ivanavič Fiodaraŭ (1911 1994) and Christian Imbert (1937 1998)[1] is an optical phenomenon in which a beam of circularly or elliptically polarized light undergoes a small sideways shift, when refracted or totally internally reflected. The sideways shift is perpendicular to the plane containing the incident and reflected beams. This effect is the circular polarization analog of the Goos–Hänchen effect.

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