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Phase Relations for the Electromagnetic Wave Components Reflected from and Transmitted by a Dielectric Layer

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An important property of electromagnetic waves, which follows from Fresnel's formulas but has not been clearly defined as yet in the scientific and educational literature, is considered: the phase difference between the wave components reflected from and transmitted through a plane dielectric layer located between optically identical media is equal to π/2, irrespective of the optical parameters of the layer and surrounding media, the wavelength, and the wave polarization state.

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Efimov, V.V., Sementsov, D.I. Phase Relations for the Electromagnetic Wave Components Reflected from and Transmitted by a Dielectric Layer. Russian Physics Journal 44, 365–369 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011988027276

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