УДК: 535.015, 537.876.4

Excitation of surface electromagnetic waves at planar interfaces between two gyrotropic media

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Фурс А.Н. Возбуждение поверхностных электромагнитных волн на плоских границах раздела двух гиротропных сред // Оптический журнал. 2016. Т. 83. № 2. С. 8–16.

Furs A.N. Excitation of surface electromagnetic waves at planar interfaces between two gyrotropic media [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2016. V. 83. № 2. P. 8–16.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

A. N. Furs, "Excitation of surface electromagnetic waves at planar interfaces between two gyrotropic media," Journal of Optical Technology. 83(2), 81-87 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.83.000081

Abstract:

We discuss whether it is possible to excite electromagnetic surface waves within a structure consisting of two plane-parallel, twinned, anisotropic, gyrotropic layers with opposing gyration vectors that are perpendicular to the interface between these layers. We calculate the reflection and transmission coefficients of such a structure when the incident exciting bulk wave arrives at an oblique angle from a medium with higher optical density. We study the distribution of electromagnetic field energy density within the structure at peak transmission adjacent to, and within, the total-reflection zone.

Keywords:

surface electromagnetic waves, operator methods, gyrotropic media, magnetooptics, attenuated total reflection method

OCIS codes: 310.2790 240.0310 260.1180

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