ORTHOGONALITY RELATIONS FOR POLARIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANE-WAVES INDUCED IN A UNIFORM ANISOTROPIC LAYER BY AN ARBITRARILY INCIDENT PLANE-WAVE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Relations between polarization characteristics of different plane wave s induced in a homogeneous anisotropic layer (in the general case, an absorbing layer) with plane-parallel boundaries by a plane monochromat ic wave incident on it at an arbitrary angle (normal or oblique incide nce) are derived. These relations considerably simplify from the mathe matical point of view the solution of problems on propagation of light in layered anisotropic media and problems on transmission and reflect ion of light at interfaces of anisotropic media.