On selective absorption in an axially excited slab of a dielectric thin-film helicoidal bianisotropic medium

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Venugopal, VC [1 ]
Lakhtakia, A [1 ]
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[1] Penn State Univ, Dept Engn Sci & Mech, Computat & Theoret Mat Sci Grp, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
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10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00395-7
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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The planewave response of an axially excited slab made of an absorbing dielectric thin-film helicoidal bianisotropic medium (TFHBM) is examined. A three-zone classification scheme for non-absorbing TFHBMs collapses into a two-zone classification scheme for absorbing TFHBMs, one of the two zones being unphysical. The effect of absorption on circular Bragg reflection is brought out, as also are the incidence-polarizarion-state-dependent characteristics of an absorption suppression phenomenon and the Borrmann effect, in absorbing TFHBM slabs. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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