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Negative reflection in a Faraday chiral medium

Optics 2008-03-28 v1

Abstract

The four wavenumbers associated with planewave propagation in a Faraday chiral medium (FCM) with relatively huge magnetoelectric coupling give rise to enhanced possibilities for negative-phase-velocity propagation and therefore negative refraction. They can also give rise to the phenomenon of negative reflection. In particular, for a nondissipative example, we deduced that an incident plane wave with positive/negative phase velocity can result in a negatively reflected plane wave with negative/positive phase velocity, as well as a positively reflected plane wave with positive/negative phase velocity.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3691,
  title  = {Negative reflection in a Faraday chiral medium},
  author = {Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3691},
  year   = {2008}
}
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