An invisible medium for circularly polarized electromagnetic waves

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20869-20875

  Tamayama, Y ^a   Nakanishi, T ^a,b   Sugiyama, K ^a,b   Kitano, M ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED WAVE; ISOTROPIC CHIRAL MEDIUM; PLANAR BOUNDARIES; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; REFLECTION EFFECTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349114139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020869     Document Type: Article

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