Electromagnetic reflection and transmission from a planar isotropic chiral-uniaxial chiral interface with optical axis normal to interface

Abstract

In this paper, analysis and theoretical formulations are developed for the reflected and the transmitted waves from a planar interface of isotropic chiral-uniaxally anisotropic chiral media with optical axis normal to interface. General expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients for right circularly polarized (RCP) and left circularly polarized (LCP) incident waves are derived. The results of the reflected and transmitted powers for materials with different isotropic chirality and uniaxial chirality values for both RCP and LCP incident waves are presented. The effects of the uniaxial chirality on three other cases of dielectric constant combinations are also studied. The numerical results computed by the developed transfer matrix technique expressions are found to coincide with published results obtained by computational techniques for special material cases.