Comment on "Correct definition of the Poynting vector in electrically and magnetically polarizable medium reveals that negative refraction is impossible."

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 15167-15169

  Favaro, Alberto ^a   Kinsler, Paul ^a   McCall, Martin W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT REFRACTION;

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; POYNTING VECTORS;

REFRACTION;

EID: 69049097126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015167     Document Type: Article

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