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Published on: August 12, 2013
Reflection and transmission of Gaussian beam by a uniaxial anisotropic slab
Abstract:
The reflection and transmission of an incident Gaussian beam by a uniaxial anisotropic slab are investigated, by expanding the incident Gaussian beam, reflected beam, internal beam as well as transmitted beam in terms of cylindrical vector wave functions. The unknown expansion coefficients are determined by virtue of the boundary conditions. For a localized beam model, numerical results are provided for the normalized field intensity distributions, and the propagation characteristics are discussed concisely.
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