Title :
Analysis of rainbow and polarization characteristics of chiral sphere
Author :
Li, Huan ; Wu, Zhensen ; Ye, Wenhua ; Shang, Qingchao ; Li, Zhengjun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Sci., Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
The theoretical results of the first rainbow of chiral dielectric sphere are presented. On the basis of the spherical vector wave functions, the rainbow of a homogeneous chiral sphere to a plane wave is investigated. The intensity distribution of the first or second rainbow of isotropic sphere is very obvious using ray tracing theory, but the characteristics of each rainbow for a chiral sphere with larger size parameter are hard to judge, thus, they are studied numerically in this paper. Moreover, the influence of chiral parameter on the line polarization and circular polarization properties is also numerically analyzed.
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave polarisation; numerical analysis; ray tracing; chiral dielectric sphere; circular polarization property; isotropic sphere; line polarization; numerically analysis; polarization characteristics; rainbow Analysis; ray tracing theory; spherical vector wave functions; Manganese; Media; Polarization; Refractive index; Wave functions; Scattering; chiral sphere; larger size parameter; polarization; rainbow;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Technology & Computational Electromagnetics (ICMTCE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8556-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICMTCE.2011.5915532