Optics of anisotropic media

F.V. Ignaovich^a, V.K. Ignatovich^b
^aLumetrics Inc., Rochester, New York, USA
^bFrank Neutron Physics Laboratory, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation

A new effective analytical approach to describing electromagnetic waves in nonmagnetic anisotropic media is proposed. An analytical description of the refraction and reflection at an interface between isotropic and anisotropic media is demonstrated. Beam splitting upon reflection and refraction is reviewed, and surface wave generation is examined. D’yakonov surface waves and methods of their observation are discussed. Analytical and numerical calculations of the reflection and transmission of plane-parallel uniaxial plates are outlined.

PACS: 41.20.Jb, 42.25.−p, 78.20.Fm (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.0182.201207f.0759
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2012/7/e/
Web of Science

000309960400005
Scopus

2-s2.0-84867510110
Citation: Ignaovich F V, Ignatovich V K "Optics of anisotropic media" Phys. Usp. 55 709–720 (2012)

BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks

Received: 17th, October 2010, revised: 9th, July 2011, accepted: 18th, May 2012

Оригинал: Игнатович Ф В, Игнатович В К «Оптика анизотропных сред» УФН 182 759–771 (2012); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0182.201207f.0759

References (21) ↓ Cited by (21) Similar articles (20)

Drude P Lehrbuch Der Optik (Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1912); Drude P The Theory Of Optics (New York: Dover Publ., 1959)
Azzam R M A, Bashara N M Ellipsometry And Polarized Light (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1977)
Landsberg G S Optika (M.: Fizmatlit, 2010)
Born M, Wolf E Principles Of Optics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999)
Kizel’ V A Otrazhenie Sveta (M.: Nauka, 1973)
Kŭzhel P Electromagnetisme Des Milieux Continus. "Optique" (Paris: Univ. Paris-Nord, 2000 - 2001)
Kŭzhel P "Lecture 8: Light propagation in anisotropic media" http://www.fzu.cz/kuzelp/Optics/Lecture8.pdf
Ditchburn R W Light (New York: Dover Publ., 1991)
Landau L D, Lifshits E M, Pitaevskii L P Elektrodinamika Sploshnykh Sred (M.: Fizmatlit, 2005); Landau L D, Lifshitz E M, Pitaevskii L P Electrodynamics Of Continuous Media (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004)
Pedrotti F L, Pedrotti L M, Pedrotti L S Introduction To Optics 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007)
Hecht E Optics 4th Ed. 4th ed. (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 2008)
Fedorov F I Optika Anizotropnykh Sred (Minsk: Izd-vo AN BSSR, 1958), Gl. XI, uravnenie (20.4)
Rautian S G Vvedenie v Fizicheskuyu Optiku (M.: Librokom, 2009)
Ignatovich V K, Phan L T N Am. J. Phys. 77 1162 (2009)
D’yakonov M I Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 94 (4) 119 (1988); D’yakonov M I Sov. Phys. JETP 67 714 (1988)
Utsuro M, Ignatovich V K Handbook On Neutron Optics (New York: Wiley-VCN Verlag, 2009)
Takayama O et al. Electromagnetics 28 126 (2008)
Nikitin A Yu et al. Opt. Lett. 34 3911 (2009)
Torner L, Artigas D, Takayama O Opt. Photon. News 20 (12) 25 (2009)
Takayama O et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 043903 (2009)
Aleshkevich V A Optika (M.: Fizmatlit, 2011)