Total internal reflection of evanescent plane waves

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   MacKay, Tom G ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DIELECTRIC-MAGNETIC MEDIUM; ISOTROPICS; OPTICALLY DENSE; PLANAR INTERFACE; PLANE WAVE; PROPAGATING PLANE; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 62649115912     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 13616404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/29/6/N02     Document Type: Article

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