Abstract

A material that has both negative permittivity and permeability is termed as left-handed material. The properties of Left Handed Material (LHM), such as negative refraction, have been simulated numerically by beam propagation method. The results are consistent with other works reported in the literature. It is shown that the Poynting vector and the phase velocity of the electromagnetic wave are indeed anti-parallel, confirming that the left-handed material does not violate the causality condition. It is conventional to simulate the phase restoring mechanism in a left-handed medium by showing (negative) refraction at an interface between an LHM and a conventional material. In this paper, we show for the first time, a simulation using BPM for the case of multiple-slit interference using Gaussian beam. The interference for two to three sources with different separations is used to show that the LHM can restore the phase and reverse the diffraction and interference effects.

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