Do Fresnel coefficients exist?
Optics
2007-05-23 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
The starting point of the article is the puzzling fact that one cannot recover the Fresnel coefficients by letting tend the width of a slab to infinity. Without using the so-called limiting absorption principle, we show by a convenient limit analysis that it is possible to define rigorously the field diffracted by a semi-infinite periodic medium.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0104074,
title = {Do Fresnel coefficients exist?},
author = {D. Felbacq and B. Guizal and F. Zolla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0104074},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Optics Communications