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Chin. Phys. B, 2019, Vol. 28(2): 024202    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/28/2/024202
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Reflected and transmitted powers of arbitrarily polarized plane waves at interface between chiral and achiral media

Yan-Feng Lu(路彦峰)1,2, Yi-Ping Han(韩一平)1
1 School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China;
2 School of Physics and Electronic Information, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China
Abstract  A study has been made on the reflected and transmitted powers generated when an arbitrarily polarized plane wave impinges at a planar interface separating an isotropic achiral medium (IAM) and an isotropic chiral medium (ICM). It follows that the theoretical formulas are derived for the normalized reflection and transmission powers from an IAM-ICM interface for an arbitrary polarized incident wave, and those at an ICM-IAM interface for right-hand circularly polarized (RCP) or left-hand circularly polarized (LCP) incident wave are also obtained. The behavior of the reflected and transmitted waves in different cases is studied, and the dependence of the reflection/transmission of the incident wave on the incident angle and the parameters of the media is investigated in detail. Our numerical results show that high transmission is exhibited under the impedance matching condition and the incident wave can be split into two waves of the same circular polarization state in the case of the ICM-IAM interface, which indicates that circular polarizing beam splitter is achieved.
Keywords:  chiral media      reflection power      transmission power      Fresnel coefficient  
Received:  09 September 2018      Revised:  21 November 2018      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.25.Bs (Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)  
  78.20.Ci (Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))  
  42.25.Gy (Edge and boundary effects; reflection and refraction)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61431010 and 61501350) and the National Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB340203).
Corresponding Authors:  Yan-Feng Lu, Yi-Ping Han     E-mail:  fenghua8820@126.com;yphan@xidian.edu.cn

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Yan-Feng Lu(路彦峰), Yi-Ping Han(韩一平) Reflected and transmitted powers of arbitrarily polarized plane waves at interface between chiral and achiral media 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 024202

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