Reflection and absorption of electromagnetic waves obliquely incident on a half-space relativistic plasma

1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1566
Author(s):  
Kaya Imre ◽  
Ercüment Özizmir
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Relativistic Plasma ◽  
Obliquely Incident

ON MODELLING REFLECTION–TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS

1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 875-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIACOMO CAVIGLIA ◽  
ANGELO MORRO
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Energy Flux ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Physical Ground ◽  
Inhomogeneous Waves ◽  
Transmission Problems ◽  
Transmitted Waves ◽  
Elementary Waves ◽  
Selection Of

The analytical and algebraic aspects associated with the modelling of reflection–transmission processes for acoustic and electromagnetic waves are investigated. The standard approaches are shown to reduce to selecting m/2 elementary (plane homogeneous or inhomogeneous) waves, among the m available ones, as the generators of the outgoing waves in each half-space. The selection of the generators is performed through the direction of the wave as indicated by the corresponding energy flux. Yet two alternative nonequivalent sets of generators occur for reflected and transmitted waves. This results in two alternative models for the reflection–transmission problem. A detailed comparison of the two schemes indicates that the generators associated with the elementary waves are the only ones which are admissible on a physical ground.

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