Anomalous positive refraction in an anisotropic left-handed medium

作者：Hu, W^*; Luo, HL; Cao, JX

来源：Chinese Physics Letters, 2005, 22(8): 2069-2072.

We investigate the refraction phenomena of extraordinary light at a planar interface associated with a uniaxial left-handed medium. It is found that the anomalous positive refraction can occur at the interface from an isotropic right-handed medium to a uniaxially anisotropic left-handed medium. When the optical axis of a uniaxial left-handed medium is not normal or parallel to the interface, the refraction of the Poynting vector for the extraordinary waves can be either positive or negative depending on the incident angles, while the refraction of the wave vector is always negative. The physical essential of the anomalous positive refraction results from the anisotropy of umaxial crystals.

• 出版日期2005-8
• 单位华南师范大学