Negative refractions and backward waves in biaxially anisotropic chiral media

doi:10.1364/OE.14.006322

Optics Express

Editor: Michael Duncan
Vol. 14, Iss. 13 — Jun. 26, 2006
pp: 6322–6332

Negative refractions and backward waves in biaxially anisotropic chiral media

Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 13, pp. 6322-6332 (2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.006322

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Abstract

We investigate the refraction and propagation properties of electromagnetic waves which are incident from free space to a biaxially anisotropic chiral medium. Such a chiral medium can be realized by putting chiral elements pointing to two directions into a host medium. When the host medium is a normally isotropic dielectric, no negative refraction and/or backward waves are supported for the propagating eigenwaves in the chiral medium. When the host medium changes to an anisotropic dielectric or an electric plasma, however, negative refractions and backward waves can be realized separately or even simultaneously if we choose the medium parameters properly. Numerical simulations validate our theoretical analysis.

OCIS Codes
(120.5710) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Refraction
(160.1190) Materials : Anisotropic optical materials
(260.2110) Physical optics : Electromagnetic optics

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Physical Optics

History
Original Manuscript: April 10, 2006
Revised Manuscript: May 13, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: May 24, 2006
Published: June 26, 2006

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Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui, "Negative refractions and backward waves in biaxially anisotropic chiral media," Opt. Express 14, 6322-6332 (2006)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-13-6322

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Cheng, Q.
Cui, T. J.
Forester, D. W.
He, S.
Jin, Y.
Jylha, L.
Lakhtakia, A.
Mackay, T. G.
Maslovski, S.
Monzon, C.
Nefedov, I.
Pendry, J. B.
Sihvola, A.
Simovski, C.
Tretyakov, S.
Tsalamengas, J. L.

IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech.

J. L. Tsalamengas, "Interaction of electromagnetic waves with general bianisotropic slabs," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 40, 1870 (1992). [CrossRef]

J. Electromagn. Waves Appl.

S. Tretyakov, I. Nefedov, A. Sihvola, S. Maslovski, and C. Simovski, "Waves and energy in chiral nihility," J. Electromagn. Waves Appl. 17, 695 (2003). [CrossRef]

New J. Phys.

T. G. Mackay and A. Lakhtakia, "Negative phase velocity in a material with simultaneous mirror-conjugated and racemic chirality characteristics," New J. Phys. 7, 165 (2005). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Y. Jin and S. He, "Focusing by a slab of chiral medium," Opt. Express 13, 4974 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Photonics Nanostruct. Fundam. Appl.

S. Tretyakov, A. Sihvola, and L. Jylha, "Backward-wave regime and negative refraction in chiral composites," Photonics Nanostruct. Fundam. Appl. 3, 107 (2005). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

Q. Cheng and T. J. Cui, "Negative refractions in uniaxially anisotropic chiral media," Phys. Rev. B 73, 113104 (2006). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. E

T. G. Mackay and A. Lakhtakia, "Plane waves with negative phase velocity in Faraday chiral mediums," Phys. Rev. E 69, 026602 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

C. Monzon and D. W. Forester, "Negative refraction and focusing of circularly polarized waves in optically active media," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 123904 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Science

J. B. Pendry, "A chiral route to negative refraction," Science 306, 1353 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

I. V. Lindell, A. H. Sihvola, S. A. Tretyakov, and A. J. Viitanen, Electromagnetic waves in Chiral and Bi-Isotropic Media (Artech House, Boston, 1994).

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