Asymmetric Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves through a Planar Chiral Structure (original) (raw)

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• Mladyonov, P. L. ;
• Prosvirnin, S. L. ;
• Rogacheva, A. V. ;
• Chen, Y. ;
• Zheludev, N. I.

Abstract

We report that normal incidence transmission of circularly polarized waves through the lossy anisotropic planar chiral structure is asymmetric in the opposite direction. The new effect is fundamentally distinct from conventional gyrotropy of bulk chiral media and the Faraday effect, where the eigenstates are a pair of counterrotating elliptical states, while the eigenstates of the lossy anisotropic planar chiral structure are two corotating elliptical polarizations.

Publication:

Physical Review Letters

Pub Date:

October 2006

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.167401

10.48550/arXiv.physics/0604234

arXiv:

arXiv:physics/0604234

Bibcode:

2006PhRvL..97p7401F

Keywords:

• 78.67.-n;
• 42.25.Bs;
• 42.25.Ja;
• 78.20.Ls;
• Optical properties of low-dimensional mesoscopic and nanoscale materials and structures;
• Wave propagation transmission and absorption;
• Polarization;
• Magnetooptical effects;
• Physics - Optics

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