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An approximate analytic solution of Maxwell’s equations is obtained inside a photodiode. Analysis of this solution shows that the earlier discovered significant decrease in the radiation field characteristics over an anode is caused by a considerable increase in the amplitude of a wave generated inside the photodiode, which for angles of incidence θ → π/2 achieves a value comparable to the initial electric field strength applied to the photodiode. In this case, the electromagnetic energy flux density inside the photodiode exceeds tens times or more the electromagnetic energy flux density over the anode. The results of numerical calculations confirm the analytic results.
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Original Russian Text © Y.N. Lazarev, Yu.G. Syrtsova, 2012, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp. 177–181.
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Lazarev, Y.N., Syrtsova, Y.G. Electrodynamics of a planar photodiode discharge for an obliquely incident initiating laser pulse. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 114, 157–160 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776111150064
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