Power-Complementary Reflection and Transmission
We can show that the reflectance and transmittance of the yielding termination are power complementary. That is, the reflected and transmitted signal-power sum to yield the incident signal-power.
The average power incident at the bridge at frequency can be expressed in the frequency domain as . The reflected power is then . Removing the minus sign, which can be associated with reversed direction of travel, we obtain that the power reflection frequency response is , which generalizes by analytic continuation to . The power transmittance is given by
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