Optical Radiation Interaction with Solids

Abstract

The paper deals with the optical radiation interaction with solids. It is shown that none of the existing ideas about the light reflection gives explanations to the known phenomena arising from the interaction between optical radiation and a solid. It is suggested that the optical radiation reflection is a collective process associated with the self-organization of electrons with a photon. This suggestion explains a number of physical phenomena that have not been explained before, for example, the Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov beam shifts, which are natural processes in such representation of reflection.