An essential difference between dielectric mirrors and chiral mirrors

✍ Scribed by Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Jian Xu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.21082

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The boundary conditions on the exposed face of a dielectric mirror are shown to be effectively the same as those for perfect electric conductors, whereas the boundary conditions on the exposed face of a chiral mirror are very different from those for either perfect electric conductors or perfect magnetic conductors. Cavities between two chiral mirrors have a relatively uniform field distribution, which is significant for spectral‐hole filters and coherent light generation. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 47: 63–64, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21082