FIELD REPRESENTATION IN GYROELECTRIC CHIRAL MEDIA BY CYLINDRICAL VECTOR WAVE-FUNCTIONS

Gyroelectric chiral media, via blending the effects of Faraday rotatio n with those of optical activity, have potential applications in chira lity management. In the present paper, a field representation is devel oped based on the characteristic wave concept and angular spectral exp ansion for this class of medium. The analysis reveals that the solutio n of source-free vector wave equation is a sum-integral form of circul ar cylindrical vector wavefunctions in isotropic media. Applications o f the present theory in scattering and waveguides are considered.