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Phys. Rev. E 71, 066612 (2005) [7 pages]

Beam shifting of an anisotropic negative refractive medium

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H. X. Da and C. Xu
Department of Physics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215006, China* and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China *

Z. Y. Li
CCAST (World Laboratory), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China and Department of Physics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215006, China

Galina Kraftmakher
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 103907 Moscow, Russian Federation

Received 8 June 2004; revised 18 March 2005; published 28 June 2005

We rigorously derive the formulas of the total electric and magnetic fields in a slab of anisotropic negative refractive medium by use of Maxwell’s equations. A beam shifting is exhibited from a Gaussian beam for an anisotropic negative refractive slab. Our results indicate that there exist two possible (positive or negative) beam shifting for an anisotropic negative refractive medium due to the special anisotropic properties, which is distinct from the case of an isotropic negative refractive slab. Physical insights are also presented.


©2005 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.066612
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.066612
PACS: 41.20.Jb, 78.20.Ci, 42.25.Bs

* Mailing address. Electronic address: ys0208003@suda.edu.cn

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