Total Internal Reflection and the Related Effects

TL;DR

This paper provides an English translation of N. Kristoffel's 1956 work on total internal reflection, highlighting the prediction of the transverse shift of the reflected light beam, a concept not widely known for decades.

Contribution

It introduces the early work of N. Kristoffel on total internal reflection and predicts the transverse shift of the reflected light beam, which was not well known previously.

Findings

Prediction of the transverse shift of the reflected light beam

Historical insight into total internal reflection research

Unpublished early scientific work

Abstract

This submission presents the English translation of the early paper by N.Kristoffel appeared in Russian in the Proceedings 0f the Tartu State University No 42 p.94-112, 1956. It reflects the work done in Tartu State University (Estonia)1n 1950-s on the total internal reflection and associated effects. This paper can be of interest for the scientific community because it remained not well known during the long period. The conceptual paper of N.Kristoffel mentioned includes as the central result the prediction of the transversal shift of the totally reflected light beam.