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- From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
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- Subject: Re: Fresnel coefficients for unpolarized light?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 04:19:46 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) (THAT'S ME) writes:
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- % Does anyone know how to compute the power of unpolarized
- % electromagnetic radiation?
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- Forget this part of the question. This is really obvious and of no
- use.
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- % What I really need to know is what the
- % Fresnel coefficients are for unpolarized light.
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- I may have already answered my own question. The solution I get is
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- R = (1/2)(R_N + R_P)
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- where R is the coefficient of reflection for unpolarized light, R_N is
- the coefficient for light polarized normal to the plane of incidence
- and R_P is the coefficient for light polarized parallel to the plane
- of incidence. Can anyone confirm this result.
-
- Darrell
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