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Mobile App Chapter 20: Q21P (page 526)
Consider a planar waveguide used for attenuated total reflection measurement of a film coated on one surface of the waveguide. For a given angle of incidence, the sensitivity of attenuated total reflectance increases as the thickness of the waveguide decreases. Explain why. (The waveguide can be less thanthick.)
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The rise in sensitivity of attenuated total reflectance as the waveguide thickness decreases.
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01
Definition of Reflectance and waveguide
- The proportion of perpendicularly incident light reflected from a component relative to that reflected from a standard of established reflectance is known as reflectance.
- A device (such as a duct, coaxial cable, or glass fibre) for confining and directing the propagation of electromagnetic waves (such as light), particularly a metal tube for channelling ultrahigh-frequency waves.
02
Determine the sensitivity of attenuated total reflectance increase as the thickness of the waveguide decreases
- It is necessary to explain why the sensitivity of attenuated total reflectance increases as the waveguide thickness decreases.
- The number of reflections inside increases as sensitivity increases, and the waveguide expands as well. Because each reflection has a certain amount of attenuation.
- The number of reflections is inversely proportional to the waveguide at a constant angle of incidence.
- As the waveguide shrinks, the number of reflections grows.
- The rise in sensitivity of attenuated total reflectance as the waveguide thickness decreases was explained.
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