Orthogonal-Phase-Velocity Propagation of Electromagnetic Plane Waves
Optics
2007-05-23 v2 General Physics
Abstract
In an isotropic, homogeneous, nondissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium that is simply moving with respect to an inertial reference frame, planewave solutions of the Maxwell curl postulates can be such that the phase velocity and the time-averaged Poynting vector are mutually orthogonal. Orthogonal-phase-velocity propagation thus adds to the conventional positive-phase-velocity propagation and the recently discovered negative-phase-velocity propagation that is associated with the phenomenon of negative refraction.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0511210,
title = {Orthogonal-Phase-Velocity Propagation of Electromagnetic Plane Waves},
author = {Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0511210},
year = {2007}
}