Abstract

It is difficult to attain a nonpolarizing assembly of optical thin films because the optical admittance of layer for S polarizing component of light waves is not equal to that for P polarizing component when the waves are obliquely incident upon the surface of the layer. The dependence of the admittances on the refraction angle of the waves inside the layer is as fellows: where n₁ is the refraction index of the layer, and θ₁, the refraction angle.

© 1992 Optical Society of America