Angular invariance of the contribution of an anisotropic thin surface layer to reflectance and reflectance-absorbance

Opt Express. 2021 Feb 1;29(3):3090-3096. doi: 10.1364/OE.413642.

Abstract

The absorbance studies of the optical radiation reflection from the boundary of two soft-matter media with a thin monolayer between are performed for a number of angles of incidence. The reflectance and absorbance spectra are described in terms of a unique spectrum invariant with respect to the incidence angles. The angular dependence of the absorbance for s-polarized radiation is shown to not provide any extra information as compared with a single-angle study in line with the previously developed theoretical considerations. We verify it experimentally performing the multi-angle infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy measurements at the air-water interface with a thin lipid film.