Positive and Negative Goos-Hanchen Shifts and Negative Phase--Velocity Mediums (alias Left-Handed Materials)

摘要

On total reflection from a half-space filled with an isotropic, homogeneous,weakly dissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium with negative phase-velocity(NPV) characteristics, it is shown here that a linearly polarized beam canexperience either a negative or a positive Goos-Hanchen shift. The sign of theshift depends on the polarization state of the beam as well as on the signs ofthe real parts of the permittivity and the permeability of the NPV medium.