The Ewald-Oseen Extinction Theorem in the Light of Huygens’ Principle
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The Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem states, that, inside a linear medium, the incident electromagnetic wave is extinguished by its interference with a part of the irradiation from the excited surface of the medium. This contradicts Huygens’ principle, according to which the incident wave is absent after having excited the sources of the secondary wavelets. In this contribution, the proof in Born & Wolf, Optics, is analyzed. c © Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011