First consider the roots of the denominator
At any pole (solution
To obtain separate equations for the real and imaginary parts, take the real and imaginary parts of
Both of these equations must hold at any pole of the reflectance. For
stability, we further require
. Defining
and
, we obtain the simpler conditions
For any poles of
on the
axis, we have
, and the
second equation reduces to
sinc
. It is well known that the sinc
function is less than
in magnitude at all
except
.
Therefore, this relation can hold only at
, and so