REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PLANE-WAVES FROM AN UNIAXIAL CHIRO-OMEGA SLAB

Chiro-omega medium is a combination of the reciprocal chiral and omega media, and can be obtained by mixing helical and Omega - shaped wire elements in the host medium. In this article the most general uniaxial chiro-omega medium is studied. The solutions for the dispersion equat ions and corresponding eigenwaves are derived. Transmission and reflec tion properties of a chiro-omega slab at a normal incidence are studie d, and the polarization, direction of the polarization ellipse, and re lative powers of transmitted and reflected waves are given. The result s are applied to find suitable parameters for designing a polarization transformer. These results are compared with those obtained in earlie r studies on wave propagation in a free uniaxial chiral space, where t he effect of the boundaries of a proposed polarization transforming de vice have been neglected.