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While the focus of Chap. 1 was on the properties of electromagnetic waves, we now turn to the optical properties of matter and their impact on wave propagation.
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See, e.g., Born and Wolf (1999).
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Higher diffraction orders exist as so-called evanescent waves, compare Sect. 2.1.3.
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The terms \(\sigma\)- and π-polarized are derived from the German terms senkrecht and parallel.
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An excellent introduction into tensors can be found in Nye (1985).
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An isotropic medium is not necessarily centrosymmetric; a chiral liquid is an example of an isotropic, yet non-centrosymmetric medium, see Sect. 2.4.1.
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Reider, G.A. (2016). Wave Propagation in Matter. In: Photonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26076-1_2
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