A simple model to explain the slowing down of light in a crystalline medium
作者:
Kaiser S. Kunz,
Ernesto Gemoets,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 3
页码: 264-270
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1119/1.10489
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Two main questions arise when one seeks to explain the propagation of light in a dielectric medium: (i) Why does the wave slow down? (ii) Why is there apparently only a forward wave? There is a subtle answer to these questions provided by the Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem, but the physical mechanism involved is not very easily visualized. This article sets forth a simple one‐dimensional model of parallel polarizable slabs that makes the mechanism clear and links the two questions in an interesting way.
点击下载:
PDF
(401KB)
返 回