Notes on the Optical Properties of Materials

Book: Spectrally Selective Surfaces for Heating and Cooling Applications

Editor(s): Claes-Goeran Granqvist

Published: 1989

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2512522.ch2

Abstract

We distinguish between light with s-polarisation (E vectors normal to the plane spanned by the incident, reflected, and transmitted beams) and with p-polarisation (H vectors normal to the same plane). From Maxwell's equations, one can obtain the well-known Fresnel's relations for the reflected field amplitudes.