Total reflection of electromagnetic waves propagating from an isotropic medium to an indefinite metamaterial

被引：10

作者：

Xiang, Yuanjiang ^{[1
]}

Dai, Xiaoyu ^{[1
]}

Wen, Shuangchun ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Hunan Univ, Sch Comp & Commun, Changsha 410082, Peoples R China

来源：

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS | 2007年 / 274卷 / 01期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金; 高等学校博士学科点专项科研基金;

关键词：

indefinite medium; negative index material; total reflection; photon tunneling;

D O I：

10.1016/j.optcom.2007.02.013

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

The existence conditions for total reflection and the corresponding critical angle at the interface separating an isotropic medium and an indefinite metamaterial for TE- and TM-polarized electromagnetic waves are obtained. For different kinds of indefinite metamaterial, there appear different total reflection phenomena. Particularly, the anomalous total reflection in which the incident angle is smaller than the critical angle and the Brewster's angle can be smaller than the critical angle can occur for anti-cutoff medium. Furthermore, the omnidirectional total reflection exists for the always cutoff medium and anti-cutoff medium. The total reflection depends on the thickness of indefinite metamaterial when the indefinite metamaterial is finite, and the photon tunneling phenomenon can occur when the thickness of indefinite metamaterial is smaller than wavelength. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：248 / 253

页数：6

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