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Exorcizing ghost waves

Optics 2019-09-05 v2

Abstract

The so-called electromagnetic ghost waves are simply electromagnetic nonuniform plane waves, whose association with both propagating and evanescent fields has long been known, even for isotropic dielectric materials that are non-dissipative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.08020,
  title  = {Exorcizing ghost waves},
  author = {Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08020},
  year   = {2019}
}
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