Brewster reflection from a tangentially moving dielectric

ID: brewster-reflection-from-a-tangentially-moving-dielectric

A vacuum ray incident normally on a dielectric moving parallel to its surface becomes oblique in the material rest frame, with . For a transparent nonmagnetic dielectric, the rest-frame Brewster angle satisfies , giving . The reflected electric field is perpendicular to the plane containing the ray and the velocity. A real refractive index is assumed; dispersion makes the condition implicit through the rest-frame frequency, and absorption generally removes exact extinction.

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