Abstract
Using a vectorial formulation, we show that Huygens’s secondary-sources density is constant in plane waves, and it depends only on the wavelength. We also illustrate that Huygens’s secondary sources, which act as emitters of secondary wavelets, have a finite dimension equal to .
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