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Calculation of dispersion equations for uniaxial dielectric-magnetic mediums

Optics 2017-03-01 v1

Abstract

In this overview paper, we investigate the dispersion of electromagnetic waves for dissipative and non-dissipative dielectric-magnetic uniaxial mediums. Changing the sign of one component of dielectric permittivity ({\epsilon}) or magnetic permeability ({\mu}) from positive to negative will lead to sixteen different cases (real or imaginary) for a non-dissipative medium and eight different cases for dissipative one. In a non-dissipative medium, dispersion relations follow the elliptic/hyperbolic relations. This rule completely vanishes regarding the dissipative medium. While the number of dispersion cases in a dissipative medium is lower than a non-dissipative one, there are cases which are not allowed in non-dissipative mediums but allowed in dissipative mediums.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08765,
  title  = {Calculation of dispersion equations for uniaxial dielectric-magnetic mediums},
  author = {Omid Khakpour and Seyed Mojtaba Rezaei Sani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08765},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables