Airy slab; quarter-wave Bragg mirror

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Reference
Airy slab; quarter-wave Bragg mirror
Kind
analytic: a closed form, limit or conservation law: independent of any code
Calculated
R, T
Agreement
1e-12 / 1e-10 abs
A 300 nm slab of n = 2 in air at normal incidence: the Airy formula R = F sin²δ / (1 + F sin²δ) with F = 4R₁/(1 − R₁)², R₁ the single-surface reflectance and δ = 2πnd/λ: the fringes of a Fabry–Pérot slab.
40045050055060065070075080000.10.20.30.4λ [nm]R
R, PyStratify R, Airy formula
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  • largest |R − R_Airy|: 6.66×10⁻¹⁶
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Run it yourself: figures.py on GitHub, PyStratify 97e52a9