中国物理B ›› 2007, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (7): 1959-1962.doi: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/7/026

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Characteristics of surface waves in anisotropic left-handed materials

姜永远, 时红艳, 张永强, 侯春风, 孙秀冬   

  1. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 收稿日期:2006-03-31 修回日期:2006-07-31 出版日期:2007-07-04 发布日期:2007-07-04
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No~60508005) and the Scientific Foundation for Returned Overseas Scholars of Heilongjiang Province, China (Grant No~LC05C02).

Characteristics of surface waves in anisotropic left-handed materials

Jiang Yong-Yuan(姜永远)†, Shi Hong-Yan(时红艳）, Zhang Yong-Qiang(张永强）, Hou Chun-Feng(侯春风）, and Sun Xiu-Dong(孙秀冬）   

  1. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • Received:2006-03-31 Revised:2006-07-31 Online:2007-07-04 Published:2007-07-04
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No~60508005) and the Scientific Foundation for Returned Overseas Scholars of Heilongjiang Province, China (Grant No~LC05C02).

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摘要： We report the coexistence of TE and TM surface modes in certain same frequency domain at the interface between one isotropic regular medium and another biaxially anistotropic left-handed medium. The conditions for the existence of TE and TM polarized surface waves in biaxially anisotropic left-handed materials are identified, respectively. The Poynting vector and the energy density associated with surface modes are calculated. Depending on the system parameters, either TE or TM surface modes can have the time averaged Poynting vector directed to or opposite to the mode phase velocity. It is seen that the characteristics of surface waves in biaxially anisotropic left-handed media are significantly different from that in isotropic left-handed media.

Abstract: We report the coexistence of TE and TM surface modes in certain same frequency domain at the interface between one isotropic regular medium and another biaxially anistotropic left-handed medium. The conditions for the existence of TE and TM polarized surface waves in biaxially anisotropic left-handed materials are identified, respectively. The Poynting vector and the energy density associated with surface modes are calculated. Depending on the system parameters, either TE or TM surface modes can have the time averaged Poynting vector directed to or opposite to the mode phase velocity. It is seen that the characteristics of surface waves in biaxially anisotropic left-handed media are significantly different from that in isotropic left-handed media.

Key words: biaxially anisotropic left-handed material, surface wave, dispersion relation

中图分类号:  (Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)

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