Original scientific paper
Polarization state of the light transmitted by a sandwich of isotropic dielectric layers
Josip Moser
; Fizički Institut, Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Univerzitet “Kiril i Metodij« - Skopje, P. 0. Box 162, Gazi Baba b. b., 91 000 Skopje, Yugoslavia
Ljiljana Janičijević
; Fizički Institut, Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Univerzitet “Kiril i Metodij« - Skopje, P. 0. Box 162, Gazi Baba b. b., 91 000 Skopje, Yugoslavia
Abstract
The analysis of the transmission coefficient of the plate with multilayer film (each layer is made of isotropic material of different thickness and refractive index), shows that the polarization state of the light, plane at incidence, turns into elliptical one, when the light is transmitted by the plate. General expressions for the ellipticity and the azimuth of the vibrating ellipse as functions of the incident light azimuth and angle of incidence are found. The results are applied to the five layer sandwich. Specialisations are done for plates of reduced number of layers, as well as to sandwiches of two successively repeating components. Azimuths of 0° and 90° of the incident light, as well as normal incidence, preserve the linear polarization of the transmitted light by the multilayer plate.
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331471
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Publication date:
8.1.1989.
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