ANALYSIS OF MULTILAYER THIN-FILM STRUCTURES CONTAINING MAGNETOOPTIC AND ANISOTROPIC MEDIA AT OBLIQUE-INCIDENCE USING 2X2 MATRICES

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MANSURIPUR, M
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[1] Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson
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10.1063/1.345121
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O59 [应用物理学];
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A complete analysis of multilayer structures containing an arbitrary number of dielectric, metal, magnetic, and birefringent/dichroic layers is presented. An algorithm, based on simple 2×2 matrices, is derived which allows reflection, transmission, absorption, magneto-optic conversion, birefringence, and dichroism of the structure to be computed on a personal computer. The incident beam is assumed to be plane monochromatic with arbitrary angle of incidence. There are no approximations involved, and the results are direct consequences of Maxwell's equations.
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