Angular dependence of the light pressure under oblique incidence of short light pulses

Abstract

A theoretical study of the light pressure on the interface of two media under oblique incidence of short light pulses is presented. For the first time an angular dependence of the light pressure is discovered, which begins to exhibit itself strongly when the short duration light pulses with large “longitudinal” dimension of the pulse cross-section are directed on the surface under large angles. This dependence may be experimentally observed in the range of picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses.