A very strong amplification of both the longitudinal and the transverse shifts in total reflection of a light beam, rendering them easily observable, together with the filtering of the corresponding pair of polarization eigenmodes, has been obtained by using one single reflection at a multilayered interface. After presenting the general philosophy of this approach and summarizing the computational techniques used by one of us (Y. Levy), we describe the two experimental setups, and produce the photographic recording of our results. Some theoretical implications of these are very briefly discussed in our conclusion.

• Received 2 December 1975

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.15.3553