Reflection and Transmission of Electromagnetic Waves by a Dielectric Half-Space Moving Perpendicular to the Plane of Incidence

Abstract

The present paper describes reflection and transmission of a plane electromagnetic wave by a dielectric half‐space which is moving uniformly perpendicular to the plane of incidence. It is found that for the incident E plane wave both the reflected and transmitted waves are no longer an E plane wave but a linear combination of E and H plane waves. In addition, it is shown that for the incident E wave the E‐wave components of the reflected and transmitted waves carry a positive power, but the power flow with regard to the H‐wave component of the transmitted wave is always negative while the power carried by the H‐wave component of the reflected wave is always positive.