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Does Optical Anisotropy Lead to Negative Refraction at an Interface?

Other Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

This is a comment inspired by recently published results [Y. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 157404 (2003)] that introduced the name "amphoteric refraction" for the fact that at the interface with an optically anisotropic material there can be a range of incidence angles for which the component of the Poynting vector parallel to the interface changes sign upon refraction. The latter effect is a well-known consequence of optical anisotropy, but it was described as a new negative refraction phenomenon that can be put in the same class as the negative refraction observed at an interface with a left-handed material with negative refractive index.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502308,
  title  = {Does Optical Anisotropy Lead to Negative Refraction at an Interface?},
  author = {Ivan Biaggio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502308},
  year   = {2007}
}

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