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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: phase shift beam recombiner Born&Wolf
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:39:59 GMT
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- On the phase shift of a beam splitter.
- From Born and Wolf Principles of Optics 7.7 p.p.322-4
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- "For each member of either the reflected or the transmitted set of
- waves, the variable part of the phase of the wavefunction differs from
- that of the preceding member by an mount which corresponds to a double
- traversal of the plate. this phase difference d is"
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- d =(4pi/lambda)n'h cos(theta') (1)
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- lambda is wavelength of light in vacuum, n' is homogeneous index of
- refraction of plate, h is thickness of plate, theta' is refractive angle
- in plate. Summing over all multiple reflections, the total reflection
- amplitude is
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- A(r) = {(1 - e^id)R^1/2/(1 - Re^id)}A(i) (8) (Born&Wolf numbering)
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- where r^2 = r'^2 = R (4) where r is single external reflection transfer
- function from air into plate, r' is internal reflection from plate to
- air (from Fresnel eqs.). Similarly, for transmission tt' = T (2)
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- A(t) = {T/(1 - Re^id)}A(i) (12)
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- Therefore
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- A(r)/A(t) = |A(r)/A(t)|e^i[phi(r)-phi(t)] = |A(r)/A(t)|e^ib
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- = (1 - e^id)R^1/2/T (J1)
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- = R^1/2/T (1 - cosd - isind)
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- = R^1/2/T {(1 - cosd) - isind}
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- = R^1/2/T {(1 - cosd)^2 + (sind)^2}^1/2e^iarctan[sind/(1 - cosd)]
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- = R^1/2/T {(2 - 2cosd}^1/2 e^iarctan[sind/(1 - cosd)]= |A(r)/A(t)|e^ib
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- Therefore,
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- b = arctan[sind/(1 - cosd)] where d =(4pi/lambda)n'h cos(theta')
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- And there is no reason from this to believe that b = pi/2 as claimed by
- Aephraim as an objection to my FTL communicator. So what's going on?
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