Revisiting the Balazs thought experiment in the case of a left-handed material: Electromagnetic-pulse-induced displacement of a dispersive, dissipative negative-index slab

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10138-10162

  Chau, Kenneth J ^a   Lezec, Henri J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LORENTZ FORCE; MASS TRANSFER; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABRAHAM MOMENTUM; CENTER-OF-MASS; CONSERVATION LAW; ELECTROMAGNETIC MOMENTUM; EXPLICIT MODELS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; FORCE DENSITY; GLOBAL ENERGY; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; MASS DENSITIES; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; NEGATIVE-INDEX; OPTOMECHANICAL; PLANE WAVE; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL STRESS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84861151954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010138     Document Type: Article

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