Comparative study of planewave propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums and isotropic chiral mediums

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 107-111

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Weiglhofer, Werner S ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL ROTATION;

HELICOIDAL BIANISOTROPIC MEDIUMS (HBM); ISOTROPIC CHIRAL MEDIUMS (ICM); MOLECULAR CHIRALITY; STRUCTURAL CHIRALITY;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0033891850     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/2/2/306     Document Type: Article

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