title: An invisible medium for circularly polarized electromagnetic waves.
abstract: We study the no reflection condition for a planar boundary between vacuum and an isotropic chiral medium. In general chiral media, elliptically polarized waves incident at a particular angle satisfy the no reflection condition. When the wave impedance and wavenumber of the chiral medium are equal to the corresponding parameters of vacuum, one of the circularly polarized waves is transmitted to the medium without reflection or refraction for all angles of incidence. We propose a circular polarizing beam splitter as a simple application of the no reflection effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. tama@giga.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamayama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitano
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation