Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a high-density gas that has refractive index, ns = 1.8 at a specified
Question:
(a) Determine the minimum required value of the glass refractive index, ng, so that the interior beam will totally reflect.
(b) Knowing ng, find the required refractive index of the quarter-wave film, nf.
(c) With the SF6 gas evacuated from the chamber, and with the glass and film values as previously found, find the ratio, Pout/Pin. Assume very slight misalignment, so that the long beam path through the prism is not retraced by reflected waves.
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