Deviation from Snell's Law for Beams Transmitted Near the Critical Angle: Application to Microcavity Lasers

Abstract

We show that when a narrow beam is incident upon a dielectric interface near the critical angle for total internal reflection it will be transmitted into the far-field with an angular deflection from the direction predicted by Snell's Law, due to a phenomenon we call "Fresnel Filtering". This effect can be quite large for the parameter range relevant to dielectric microcavity lasers.

4 pages, 3 figures (eps), RevTeX 3.1, to be published in Optics Letters

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