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  3. From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
  4. Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math
  5. Subject: Fresnel coefficients for unpolarized light?
  6. Date: 17 Nov 1992 03:21:27 GMT
  7. Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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  11. Summary: What are the Fresnel coefficients for unpolarized light?
  12. Keywords: Fresnel,light,polarization
  13.  
  14. Does anyone know how to compute the power of unpolarized
  15. electromagnetic radiation?  What I really need to know is what the
  16. Fresnel coefficients are for unpolarized light but I think I can
  17. compute them if I can find an answer to the first question.
  18.  
  19. I suppose one could assume a uniform distribution of polarization
  20. vectors and work from there.  It must be something really simple.
  21.  
  22. Thanks in advance.
  23.  
  24. Darrell
  25.