Surface waves in an anisotropic periodically multilayered medium: Influence of the absorption
- 15 June 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 77 (12), 6152-6161
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.359141
Abstract
The influence of absorption upon behavior of the reflection coefficient in water for an anisotropic periodically multilayered medium is studied. From observing a trough of the experimental reflection coefficient of a carbon/epoxy composite immersed in water, the propagation modes of the Floquet waves in an infinite anisotropic periodically multilayered medium in vacuum have been studied. This was explained by a mode that we called the multilayered Rayleigh mode. This mode results from a combination of the Floquet waves which propagate in a periodically multilayered medium. This occurs when all the Floquet waves are inhomogeneous. Analyzing the results obtained in the isotropic case permits the more complicated cases to be explained. By analogy with the isotropic case, the multilayered Rayleigh wave is related to the poles and the zeros of the reflection coefficient. The existence of a critical attenuation becomes evident when the reflection coefficient in water for the multilayered medium reaches zero.Keywords
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