Fermat's principle and the formal equivalence of local light-ray rotation and refraction at the interface between homogeneous media with a complex refractive index ratio

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 374-376

  Sundar, Bhuvanesh ^a   Hamilton, Alasdair C ^a   Courtial, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXTENDED SNELL'S LAW; FERMAT'S PRINCIPLE; FORMAL DESCRIPTION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; LIGHT RAYS; LOCAL LIGHTS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 59249104724     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000374     Document Type: Article

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