Interferences: fundamentals

Notations

Let us consider two electromagnetic waves represented by their electrical fields and . We note that and are their wave vectors, and their pulsations and and  their original phases.

Given a polarized field according to the direction , we have:

And given a polarized field according to the direction , we have:

For the field .

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