A METHOD OF GENERALIZED TRANSFER MATRIX FOR A PROBLEM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH AN ARBITRARY ONE-DIMENSIONAL ABSORBING MEDIUM.

A generalized transfer matrix method for a problem of electromagnetic wave propagation through an arbitrary one-dimensional absorbing medium is suggested. Connections between the scattering amplitudes of the left and right scattering problems are found. It is shown that the problem of scattering amplitude determination can be reduced to solution of a one set of differential equations with two different initial conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]