ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2025
On the generalized Snell-Descartes laws, shock waves, water wakes, and Cherenkov radiation.
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Abstract
The modification of light's trajectory after refracting through a boundary separating two media is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. The laws governing such refraction/reflection, known today as the Snell-Descartes laws of reflection and refraction, were established over four centuries ago and have since become foundational to the field of classical optics. Presently, with the advent of nano-photonic technology, a generalized version of these laws has been developed and implemented, vastly broadening the breadth of light manipulation methods. Despite their popularity, however, a simple and accessible derivation of the Snell-Descartes laws is still lacking, and their generalization is still largely missing from the physics curricula. Here, we use simple analogies between light's refraction and reflection and other
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