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Intensity of an isotropic radiator

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An isotropic source of average power P has intensity
⟨S⟩=4πr2P​
(1)
at distance r. For monochromatic vacuum radiation, its electric-field amplitude is E0​=2⟨S⟩/(ϵ0​c)​.

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