Abstract
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 A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
| Volume | 448 |
| Issue number | 1934 |
| State | Published - Mar 8 1995 |
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Light propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums. / Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Weiglhofer, Werner S.
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 448, No. 1934, 08.03.1995, p. 419-437.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Light propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums
AU - Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
AU - Weiglhofer, Werner S.
PY - 1995/3/8
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N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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