title: Reflection and refraction properties of plane waves on the interface of uniaxially anisotropic chiral media.
abstract: We have investigated the reflection and refraction properties of plane waves incident from free space into a uniaxially anisotropic chiral medium, where the chirality appears only in one direction and the host medium can be either an isotropic dielectric or an anisotropic electric plasma. We show that the reflection and refraction properties are closely related to the dispersion relation of the chiral medium and that negative phase refractions and/or negative group refractions may occur. We further demonstrate that the two eigenwaves within the uniaxially anisotropic chiral medium behave differently with respect to the incident angle, and in some cases only one of them can be supported and transmitted. We have studied the critical angle and Brewster's angle with some special properties. We have also discussed the potential application of the uniaxially anisotropic chiral medium for the polarization beam splitter. Numerical results are given to validate our analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. qiangcheng@emfield.org
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Tie Jun
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Cui