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Published in final edited form as: Rep Prog Phys. 2010 Jun 2;73(7):076701. doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/73/7/076701

Table 1.

Frequency-domain Green’s functions for Equation (12) in several homogeneous geometries subject to the extrapolated-zero boundary condition (Equation (19)). rs is the position of a normalized isotropic point source. With the exception of the infinite case, cylindrical coordinates are used explicitly to specify position, i.e. r = (ρ, z). Notation is defined in the lower part of the Table. In practice, the infinite sums are truncated after a desired accuracy has been reached.

Case Green’s function (frequency-domain)
Infinite
G0(r,rs)=14π|rrs|exp(k|rrs|)
Semi-infinite
G0([ρ,z],[ρs=0,zs=tr])=14π[exp(kr1)r1exp(krb)rb]
Infinite Slab
G0([ρ,z],[ρs=0,zs=tr])=14πm=(exp[kr+,m]r+·mexp[kr·m])r,m)
Infinite Cylindrical
G0([ρ,z],[ρs,zs])=12πab2m=cosmφβme|zzs|/k2+βm2k2+βm2Jm(βmρ)Jm(βmρs)[Jm(βmab)]2

k(μaυiω)/D
Jm(z) mth order Bessel function, 1st kind
r±,mρ2+(zz±,m)2
a, cylinder radius
z+,m ≡ 2m(d + 2zb) + ℓtr ab = a + zb, i.e. extrapolated-zero boundary (cylinder)
z−,m ≡ 2m(d + 2zb) − 2zb − ℓtr βm, a positive root of Jmmab) = 0
kmk2+m2π2/hb2
ρ, radial cylindrical coordinate
r1(ztr)2+ρ2
rb(z+2zb+tr)2+ρ2
ReffRϕ+RJ2Rϕ+Rj
zb=2tr1+Reff3(1Reff)
Rϕ0π/2Sin(2ϑ)RFresnel(ϑ)dϑ
RJ0π/23Sinϑcos2ϑRFresnel(ϑ)dϑ
m, an integer d, slab thickness (Figure 4)
cos ϑ = Ω̂ · Figure 4) RFresnel(ϑ), Fresnel reflection coefficient
ϑ, angle of incidence in RFresnel(ϑ) φ, angle between input/output light beams (cylinder)