Exact reflection amplitudes for the Rayleigh profile

✍ Scribed by John Lekner

• Book ID: 103892556
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 641 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90241-2

✦ Synopsis

We give an exact solution of the electromagnetic s and p wave equations for a medium where the reciprocal of the refractive index varies linearly with distance. This solution leads to analytical expressions for the reflection amplitudes rr and r,, which reduce at normal incidence to the result obtained by Lord Rayleigh. These results are compared at long wavelength with those obtained recently to second-order in the (interfacial thickness/wavelength) expansion.