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Can an optical medium be lossless and dispersive?
Occasionally, I come across the phrase "lossless dispersive linear optical medium". How can such a medium be possible mathematically? I mean the real and imaginary parts of the electric ...
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How to figure out TM and TE modes based on dispersion relation?
According to this paper (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5128679), the dispersion relation of hyperbolic materials is as follows:
then it is said, that he first term in brackets in the equation describes a ...
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Wave propagation in gyrotropic medium
Given a gyrotropic material with
$$\vec D = \epsilon \vec E + \lambda / c \vec H \\ \vec B = v / c \vec E + \mu \vec H$$
where $\epsilon, \lambda, v, c, \mu$ are constants (no relation ...
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