TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on "The Imbert-Fedorov shift of paraxial light beams"
AU - Bliokh, K. Y.
PY - 2009/4/15
Y1 - 2009/4/15
N2 - Here I argue that Liu and Li [B.-Y. Liu, C.-F. Li, Opt. Commun. 281 (2008) 3427] reproduce calculations of the Imbert-Fedorov transverse shift previously made in a number of other works. However, it has recently been shown that these results are not valid for standard uniformly polarized beams. The corrected values of the Imbert-Fedorov shift were derived in papers [K.Y. Bliokh, Y.P. Bliokh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 073903; Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 066609] and confirmed by recent measurements [O. Hosten, P. Kwiat, Science 319 (2008) 787] with a great accuracy.
AB - Here I argue that Liu and Li [B.-Y. Liu, C.-F. Li, Opt. Commun. 281 (2008) 3427] reproduce calculations of the Imbert-Fedorov transverse shift previously made in a number of other works. However, it has recently been shown that these results are not valid for standard uniformly polarized beams. The corrected values of the Imbert-Fedorov shift were derived in papers [K.Y. Bliokh, Y.P. Bliokh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 073903; Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 066609] and confirmed by recent measurements [O. Hosten, P. Kwiat, Science 319 (2008) 787] with a great accuracy.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.079
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.079
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 282
SP - 1521
EP - 1522
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 8
ER -