2013/12/31 by Zhenglu Duan, Liyun Hu, Xue-xiang Xu +2
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Interference (communication) #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality #Optics #Physics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Reflection (computer programming) #Slab #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #Total internal reflection #Transmission (telecommunications) #Wave packet #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/oe.22.017679
published as Zhenglu Duan, Liyun Hu, XueXiang Xu, and Cunjin Liu, "Goos-Hänchen-like shift of three-level matter wave incident on Raman beams," Opt. Express 22, 17679-17690 (2014) · 12 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/07/14 · arxiv created 2014/07/15 · arxiv updated 2014/07/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
When a three-level atomic wavepacket is obliquely incident on a "medium slab" consisting of two far-detuned laser beams, there exists lateral shift between reflection and incident points at the surface of a "medium slab", analogous to optical Goos-Hänchen effect. We evaluate lateral shifts for reflected and transmitted waves via expansion of reflection and transmission coefficients, in contrast to the stationary phase method. Results show that lateral shifts can be either positive or negative dependent on the incident angle and the atomic internal state. Interestingly, a giant lateral shift of transmitted wave with high transmission probability is observed, which is helpful to observe such lateral shifts experimentally. Different from the two-level atomic wave case, we find that quantum interference between different atomic states plays crucial role on the transmission intensity and corresponding lateral shifts.