Left/right asymmetry in reflection and transmission by a planar anisotropic dielectric slab with topologically insulating surface states

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Tom G. Mackay

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.10.020501

22 June 2016 Left/right asymmetry in reflection and transmission by a planar anisotropic dielectric slab with topologically insulating surface states

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Tom G. Mackay

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 10, Issue 2, 020501 (June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.020501

Abstract

The reflection and transmission of plane waves by a homogeneous anisotropic dielectric slab—as represented by a columnar thin film—with topologically insulating surface states was theoretically investigated. Copolarized and cross-polarized reflectances and transmittances were calculated by solving the associated boundary-value problem. Numerical calculations revealed that all four reflectances and all four transmittances were asymmetric with respect to reversal of projection of the propagation direction of the incident plane wave on the illuminated surface of the slab. This left/right reflection and transmission asymmetry arises due to the combined effects of the slab’s anisotropy and surface states.

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Tom G. Mackay "Left/right asymmetry in reflection and transmission by a planar anisotropic dielectric slab with topologically insulating surface states," Journal of Nanophotonics 10(2), 020501 (22 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.020501

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