The non-birefringent limit of all linear, skewonless media and its unique light-cone structure

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 523, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 383-401

  Favaro, A ^a,b   Bergamin, L ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birefringence; light cone.; premetric electrodynamics; transformation optics

Indexed keywords

BIVECTORS; CONSTITUTIVE LAW; FRESNEL EQUATION; GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION; LINEAR MEDIA; PREMETRIC ELECTRODYNAMICS; SELF-DUAL; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

LIGHT;

EID: 79955370254     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000140     Document Type: Article

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