Angular dependence of the reflectance from an isotropic polydomain medium: Effect of large domain size on total reflection

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 569-573

  Mayerhöfer, Thomas G ^a   Popp, Jürgen ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; REFLECTANCE THEORY; TRANSMITTANCE THEORY;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 15044365515     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000569     Document Type: Article

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15. This can be easily verified by a calculation of the reflectance from a medium with cubic crystal symmetry by use of n = nord,2, n = n extraord,2, and ninc = 3.
16. We suggest naming the corresponding effect suppressed total reflection.