POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF PLANE-WAVES IN TRANSVERSELY BIANISOTROPIC UNIAXIAL MEDIUM

Transversely bianisotropic uniaxial medium can be constructed by mixin g metal helices into anisotropic host medium in such a way that the ax es of the helices are perpendicular to a fixed direction in space but randomly oriented in the transverse plane. In general, the host medium can be either reciprocal or nonreciprocal. Eigenwaves, expressions fo r the plane-wave fields, and polarization behavior are derived for the plane wave propagating perpendicular to the symmetry axis. The polari zation properties of chiral and reciprocal transversely bianisotropic uniaxial medium are studied in order to find a suitable parameter comb ination for a polarization transformer. Several numerical examples are given to illustrate the propagation properties of the transversely bi anisotropic uniaxial medium. (C) 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.