Synopsis A study is undertaken of the field excited in a semi-infinite cylindrical dielectric rod having small conductivity when plane harmonic electromagnetic waves are incident obliquely upon its end. All back-scattering and the complicated edge effects due to the end of the rod are neglected. Expressions for the normalized power absorbed in the rod are obtained by an approximation technique from the corresponding results for a similar rod whose conductivity is zero, assuming that the radiation through the walls of the rod may be ignored. Selected numerical results are presented and the relevance of these to models of a retinal rod of the human eye is discussed.
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