Properties of Fresnel's Interface Reflection Coefficients

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Let denote an interface Fresnel reflection coefficient for
- or
-polarized light at an oblique angle of incidence
and
denote the same coefficient at normal incidence. Then it can be shown that
is an analytic function of
that depends parametrically on the angle of incidence
. Here
, where
and
are the normal-incidence amplitude reflectance and phase shift.
Contributed by: Siva Perla (March 2011)
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R. M. A. Azzam, "Transformation of Fresnel's Interface Reflection and Transmission Coefficients between Normal and Oblique Incidence," Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69(4), 1979 pp. 590-596.
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