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Cross-polarization of light at a dielectric-biisotropic medium interface

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The problem of reflection and refraction of TE- and TM-polarized electromagnetic waves at oblique incidence on a dielectric-biisotropic medium interface has been solved. Conditions for the Brewster angles, at which the reflected wave field contains only the cross-polarized component, are established and the influence of the chirality and nonreciprocity parameters on the reflection coefficients is analyzed. It is shown that the appearance of cross-polarization upon reflection from the biisotropic medium is caused by the presence of nonreciprocity in addition to chirality.

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Original Russian Text © D.G. Sannikov, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 14–21.

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Sannikov, D.G. Cross-polarization of light at a dielectric-biisotropic medium interface. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 352–355 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009040191

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