| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1536775 | Optics Communications | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, the reflection and transmission at the planar interface between an isotropic achiral medium (IAM) and an isotropic chiral medium (ICM) are theoretically studied. For one of the circularly polarized (CP) waves fullfilling the wavenumber matching condition incident from IAM with incident angle from 0 to Ï/2, the amplitude reflection and transmission coefficients are constant. The phenomenon is called the omnidirectional constant transmission (OCT). In the situation of CP waves incident from ICM, OCT will not occur, but the absolute values of the amplitude reflection and transmission coefficients can be constants in a range of incident angle under certain conditions. It is suggested that for OCT to occur, both the wavenumber matching condition and the mode matching condition should be satisfied.
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Authors
Hongyi Chen, Jingzhen Li, Xiaowei Lu, Shixiang Xu,