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hexastormHexastorm 09/15/2023 at 10:241 Comment

Laser scanning via mirrors is of relevance to prism scanning, being an alternative. For mirrors it is assumed angle in is angle out (law of reflection). Still, this is not always valid. The following article on arxiv goes into depth on the latteral shift and angular shift known as goos hanchen effect and imbert federov effect. It is seems to be simple consequence of Fresnel equations.

Aberration is small but you would have to account for distance to substrate  and also compound both effect. Details in article

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.10940.pdf

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eashan.jakyren wrote 12/02/2023 at 07:10 point

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