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Plane wave propagation in a uniaxial bianisotropic medium with an application to a polarization transformer

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Uniaxial bianisotropic medium is a generalization of the well-studied bi-isotropic and chiral media. It is obtained, for example, when microscopic helices with parallel axes are positioned in a host dielectric in random locations. Plane wave propagation in such a medium is studied and a simple solution for the dispersion equation and for the eigenwaves are found. As a numerical example, polarization properties of a transverse wave propagating in a uniaxial bianisotropic medium is considered. The results give a simple possibility to construct a polarization transformer with a transversely uniaxial chiral medium for changing the polarization of a propagating plane wave.

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  1. Electromagnetics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Ari J. Viitanen & Ismo V. Lindell

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Viitanen, A.J., Lindell, I.V. Plane wave propagation in a uniaxial bianisotropic medium with an application to a polarization transformer. Int J Infrared Milli Waves 14, 1993–2010 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096368

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