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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 25, Pages 20864-20868Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020864
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- Leverhulme Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C533488/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The Abraham-Minkowski dilemma relates to the disputed value of the optical momentum within a dielectric medium and whether the free-space value should be divided (Abraham) or multiplied (Minkowski) by the refractive index. Although undoubtedly simplistic, these two approaches provide intuitive insight to many subtle problems in optical physics. This paper reviews a modified version of the Einstein box argument that supports an Abraham formulation, then considers diffraction within a dielectric medium and shows it supports a simple Minkowski formulation, i.e. that the optical momentum should be multiplied by the refractive index. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
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