%0 Journal Article
%T Elegant Hermite每Gaussian and Laguerre每Gaussian beams at a dielectric interface
%A Wojciech Nasalski
%J Optica Applicata
%D 2010
%I 
%X Basic features of narrow optical beam interactions with a dielectric interface are analysed. It is shown that two types of paraxial beams 每 elegant Hermite每Gaussians of linear polarization and elegant Laguerre每Gaussians of circular polarization 每 can be treated as vector normal modes of the interface. Excitation of higher-order modes by cross-polarization coupling is described and changes of mode indices induced by transmission and reflection matrices are evaluated. Optical vortex excitation and splitting are theoretically predicted and confirmed by numerical simulations.
%K Hermite&ndash
%K Gaussian and Laguerre&ndash
%K Gaussian beams
%K dielectric interfaces
%K total internal reflection
%K optical vortices and cross-polarization coupling
%U http://www.if.pwr.wroc.pl/~optappl/pdf/2010/no3/optappl_4003p615.pdf