Re: p- and s-polarization question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo A. Nieminen) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

PS
> 
> I guess you were thinking about TX having X perpendicular to the
> surface, in which case, however, neither mode has X purely
> perpendicular. 

Not perpendicular (transverse) to the surface (by which I take it you
are referring to the special case where there is just one interface
between two media), but perpendicular to the plane of incidence, which
is the plane  parallel to (including) both the wavevector and the
common normal to the interface planes.

> Is this convention used often?

Check out the lecture notes I sent in the previous message.

Cheers,

Zigoteau.