IMAGE THEORY FOR A CHIRAL HALF-SPACE

A special case in the theory of isotropic chiral media is considered. The images for sources near the interface of chiral half spaces with a n arbitrary chirality parameter are found in the case where the other parameters, i.e. permittivities epsilon and permeabilities mu, fulfill the special condition mu(2)/mu(1) = epsilon(2)/epsilon(1). In this ca se exact images can be found with the help of the theory for isotropic half spaces because the wavefields at such an interface do not couple . A vertical electric dipole (VED) near an interface of isotropic and chiral half space is given as an example.