Transient electromagnetic plane wave reflection from a dielectric slab

Reflection of a transient plane wave normally incident upon a lossless dielectric slab is analyzed via the Fourier transform. The exact expression for the time-harmonic field is used in the inverse Fourier transform to obtain the transient response to a class of exponential exciting functions. Cauchy's integral theorem and the Poisson sum formula yield closed-form expressions for the unit step and impulse response functions.<
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