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Total reflection of light propagating from an isotropic medium to an anisotropic medium

G. F. Torres del Castillo and C. J. Pérez Ballinas

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Abstract

We study the propagation of light from an isotropic medium to an anisotropic medium. It is shown that total reflection can occur only for propagation from a denser medium to a rarer medium; this result does not agree with that of Lin and Wu [Opt. Lett. 23, 22 (1998)].

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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