REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANE-WAVES AT THE INTERFACE INCLUDING CHIRAL MEDIA

The reflection from and transmission characteristic of the plane waves are studied at the interface between media including chiral media. Th e co-polarized and cross-polarized reflection and transmission coeffic ients are derived from the chiral constitutive relations. Possible val ues of chirality admittance zeta(c) are determined for fixed Brewster angles. In addition, the features of reflection and transmission in so me typical cases including the normal incidence case and that containi ng a mirror-conjugated medium are discussed in detail. For example, co mplex chiral parameters for minimal reflection coefficient in the case of normal incidence are optimized.