Abstract

A study of the transmission of inhomogeneous electromagnetic waves through an interface between a transparent and an absorbing medium leads to the prediction of a novel effect. A beam of unpolarized light passing through a dissipative plane-parallel slab splits into two parallel beams. The electric field in one beam is perpendicular to the plane of incidence, whereas in the other beam it is parallel to this plane.

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Displacement of a monochromatic light beam parallel to itself without change of polarization

R. M. A. Azzam
Opt. Lett. 7(2) 80-82 (1982)

Parallel-slab polarizing beam splitter and photopolarimeter

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Determination of optical constants: the plane–parallel slab

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Parallel-slab division-of-amplitude photopolarimeter

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Slab-geometry Nd:glass laser performance studies

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