Effective-medium description of dielectric-chiral photonic crystals

Authors
Citation
Ie. Psarobas, Effective-medium description of dielectric-chiral photonic crystals, OPT COMMUN, 162(1-3), 1999, pp. 21-25
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN journal
00304018 → ACNP
Volume
162
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
21 - 25
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(19990401)162:1-3<21:EDODPC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Using exact results of the properties of photonic crystals consisting of ch iral spheres in conjunction with an existing Maxwell-Garnett-like model for chiral composites we examine the possibility of describing such a crystal as a homogeneous chiral entity. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights r eserved.