Bessel beam through a dielectric slab at oblique incidence: the case of total reflection

Abstract

The oblique incidence of a Bessel beam on a dielectric slab with refractive index n 1 surrounded by a medium of a refractive index n> n 1 may be studied simply by expanding the Bessel beam into a set of plane waves forming the same angle θ 0 with the axis of the beam. In the present paper we examine a Bessel beam that impinges at oblique incidence onto a layer in such a way that each plane-wave component impinges with an angle larger than the critical angle.