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On the physical sense of material equations of a chiral medium

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Based on an analysis of various material equations describing artificial chiral media, it is shown that the specific optical rotation can be determined as a product of the chirality parameter and the wavenumber of an electromagnetic wave propagating in the chiral medium. It is pointed out that different approaches are used in investigations of optically active and artificial chiral media.

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  1. Povolzh’e State Academy of Telecommunication and Informatics, Samara, 443010, Russia

    O. V. Osipov

  2. Samara State Medical University, Samara, 443099, Russia

    A. N. Volobuev

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Original Russian Text © O.V. Osipov, A.N. Volobuev, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 16, pp. 28–33.

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Osipov, O.V., Volobuev, A.N. On the physical sense of material equations of a chiral medium. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 753–755 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009080185

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