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Fresnel formulas and the principle of causality

©, 1999 Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk and Russian Academy of Sciences
, , Citation Alexander A Kolokolov 1999 Phys.-Usp. 42 931 DOI 10.1070/PU1999v042n09ABEH000482

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1 Moscow State University of Technology 'Stankin', Moscow, Russian Federation

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Abstract

A method is considered whereby Fresnel formulas for transparent, absorbing, and amplifying linear media are uniquely determined by passing to the plane-monochromatic-wave limit of an electromagnetic pulse, using the principle of causality and employing the analytical properties of the amplitude reflection coefficient of the Fourier components of the light pulse.

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