Light propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Werner S. Weiglhofer

doi:10.1098/rspa.1995.0025

Light propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Werner S. Weiglhofer

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We have shown liquid crystals to be members of the more general class of helicoidal bianisotropic mediums (HBMs) and have discussed physical realizations of HBMs as liquid crystals, cross-linked polymer networks and solid thin films. Solutions of the time-harmonic Maxwell postulates for axial propagation in a HBM have been derived in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 4 × 4 matrix. We have given a procedure to obtain the response of a HBM slab to a normally incident plane wave and exemplified our analytical results by application to four mediums.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	419-437
Number of pages	19
Journal	Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Volume	448
Issue number	1934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1995.0025
State	Published - 1995

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