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Electromagnetic waves refraction on the interface of transparent with absorptive right or left-handed media

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The expressions for the time-averaged Pointing’s vector in absorptive left-handed medium based on the classical vector Maxwell’s equations for a continuum have been obtained. It was found that in the case of inclined incidence with mixed polarization the additional plane component of Poynting’s vector perpendicular to incidence plane has appeared for negative effective refraction. This addition of the in-plane component leads to non-coincidence of refraction and incidence plane.

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  1. Institute for Physics of Semiconductors, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 41 prospect Nauki, 03028, Kiev, Ukraine

    Nicolas L. Dmitruk & Alexander V. Korovin

  2. Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Alexander V. Korovin

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Dmitruk, N.L., Korovin, A.V. Electromagnetic waves refraction on the interface of transparent with absorptive right or left-handed media. Appl. Phys. A 103, 635–639 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-010-6196-9

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