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Perfect antireflection via negative refraction

Optics 2009-11-11 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We suggest a geometrical framework to discuss the action of slabs of negatively refracting materials. We show that these slabs generate the same orbits as normal materials, but traced out in opposite directions. This property allows us to confirm that the action of any lossless multilayer can be optically cancelled by putting it together with the multilayer constructed as the inverted mirror image, with ϵ\epsilon and μ\mu reversed in sign.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0509036,
  title  = {Perfect antireflection via negative refraction},
  author = {J. J. Monzon and A. G. Barriuso and L. L. Sanchez-Soto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0509036},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Some typos corrected. New references addes. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters A