Plane Wave Reflection from Anisotropic Chiral Medium with Isotropic Permittivityand Permeability

摘要

Plane wave reflection from an anisotropic chiral medium with isotropicpermittivity and permeability is considered. The plane wave is coming normally into the interface of free space and anisotropic chiral medium. As is well known, in reflection from an isotropic chiral medium, the chirality parameter has no effect to the reflection dyadic in normal incidence. But, in anisotropic chirality case the chirality parameter has effect to the reflection dyadic, and the polarization of the reflected field changes. The effect makes it possible to determine the anisotropic chirality parameter through measurements in normal incidence.