Title :
Doubly skew: A new class of non-birefringent media
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland
Abstract :
We introduce a new class of non-birefringent, linear media. These media are based on skewonic materials (media that violate the Post constraint), complemented by a skew-symmetric contribution to the principal part of the constitutive relation. The class may be parametrized in terms of a 4 × 4 matrix, whose symmetric part defines the quadratic Fresnel surface, and two space vectors.
Keywords :
Fresnel diffraction; matrix algebra; optical materials; doubly skew; matrix algebra; nonbirefringent linear media; quadratic Fresnel surface; skew-symmetric contribution; skewonic material; space vector; Equations; Matrix decomposition; Measurement; Media; Optics; Symmetric matrices; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS), 2010 URSI International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5155-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5154-8
DOI :
10.1109/URSI-EMTS.2010.5637095
