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Scattering of an electromagnetic wave in a one-dimensional medium with an arbitrary index of refraction

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A new method of determining the amplitudes of scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave incident at an angle a onto an arbitrary, isotropic, one-dimensionally inhomogeneous medium of finite thickness is developed. It is shown that this problem reduces to a Cauchy problem for a system of two first-order, linear differential equations.

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  1. Yerevan State University, Armenia

    D. M. Sedrakian, A. H. Gevorgyan & A. Z. Khachatrian

  2. State Engineering University, Armenia

    D. M. Sedrakian, A. H. Gevorgyan & A. Z. Khachatrian

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  1. D. M. Sedrakian
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  2. A. H. Gevorgyan
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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 269-276, April–June, 2000.

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Sedrakian, D.M., Gevorgyan, A.H. & Khachatrian, A.Z. Scattering of an electromagnetic wave in a one-dimensional medium with an arbitrary index of refraction. Astrophysics 43, 198–203 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02683984

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