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Interaction of Light with Matter

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In the next two sections we present some basic interaction processes of light with matter from two different points of view. First we consider matter as a homogeneous medium described by the complex dielectric function ε(ω) or by the complex index of refraction \(\tilde{n}(\omega )\).

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  1. Institut für Angewandte Physik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Professor Claus F. Klingshirn

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Klingshirn, C.F. (2012). Interaction of Light with Matter. In: Semiconductor Optics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28362-8_3

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