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The 25 pages that link to Total internal reflection, each with the reason it gives.

• Refractive indexRelated: The index contrast determines whether transmitted light can propagate.

• RefractionCompared with: It occurs instead of transmitted refraction beyond a boundary’s critical angle.

• Fiber-optic communicationRelated: It is the basic ray-optics account of light confinement in fiber.

• Optical fiberRelated: Light can remain trapped inside a fiber core when it meets the core–cladding boundary at suitable angles.

• OpticsRelated: It confines light in optical fibers and prisms.

• Snell's lawRelated: Snell's law predicts the limiting angle beyond which no refracted ray propagates.

• Geometrical opticsRelated: It is the limiting case of refraction when no transmitted ray propagates.

• ReflectionBroader topic: It is a limiting case in which no propagating wave enters the second medium.

• PrismRelated: Some prism designs use internal reflection instead of a reflective coating.

• Specular reflectionCompared with: It is a distinct interface regime with no propagating transmitted ray.

• Fresnel equationsCompared with: It is the limiting regime where Fresnel reflection reaches unit intensity and transmission becomes evanescent.

• Photonic crystalCompared with: This guides light through an interface condition rather than a bulk photonic band gap.

• LensRelated: Reflective optical elements can redirect rays through this boundary effect.

• Optical communicationRelated: This effect keeps light confined within many optical fibers.

• Brewster angleCompared with: It is a different interface effect, occurring at angles where transmission rather than p-reflection vanishes.

• Law of reflectionBroader topic: It is a boundary case where no propagating refracted ray accompanies reflection.

• WaveguideRelated: It confines light in many dielectric guides.

• Angle of incidenceRelated: Incidence beyond the critical angle prevents a transmitted ray from propagating.

• Silicon photonicsRelated: It helps confine light inside high-index silicon waveguides.

• UlexiteRelated: Repeated internal reflection confines light within ulexite’s parallel fibers.

• Charles K. KaoRelated: This optical effect confines light within a fiber’s core.

• PentaprismRelated: It can provide one of the internal reflections that redirect light inside a pentaprism.

• Optical fiber coreRelated: The core–cladding index contrast allows rays to remain confined by this boundary effect.

• Prism lightingRelated: Some prism designs use internal reflection to redirect light efficiently.

• Rainbow (optics)Compared with: Rainbow rays reflect inside droplets, but typically not by total internal reflection.