Refraction of Electromagnetic Energy for Wave Packets Incident on a Negative Index Medium is Always Negative

We analyze refraction of electromagnetic wave packets on passing from an isotropic positive to an isotropic negative refractive index medium. We definitively show that in all cases the energy is always refracted negatively. For localized wave packets, the group refraction is also always negative.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Questions of perfect lenses by left handed materials

We consider questions about the much discussed "perfect lenses" made by left handed materials. The transmission and reflection from a slab of left handed materials are investigated and the coefficients are obtained by the standard transfer matrix method. Possible limitations on such superlenses are explored. It is shown that the quality of the lenses can be significantly affected by the absorption that is necessarily present in the materials.Comment: 3 figure

Transmission Losses in Left-handed Materials

We numerically analyze the origin of the transmission losses in left-handed structures. Our data confirms that left handed structures can have very good transmission properties, in spite of the expectable dispersion of their effective permeability and refraction index. The large permittivity of the metallic components improves the transmission. High losses, observed in recent experiments, could be explained by the absorption of the dielectric board

Amplification of evanescent waves in a lossy left-handed material slab

We carry out finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations, with a specially-designed boundary condition, on pure evanescent waves interacting with a lossy left-handed material (LHM) slab. Our results provide the first full-wave numerical evidence for the amplification of evanescent waves inside a LHM slab of finite absorption. The amplification is due to the interactions between the evanescent waves and the coupled surface polaritons at the two surfaces of the LHM slab and the physical process can be described by a simple model.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

Guided Modes in Negative Refractive Index Waveguides

We study linear guided waves propagating in a slab waveguide made of a negative-refraction- index material, the so-called left-handed waveguide. We reveal that the guided waves in left-handed waveguides possess a number of peculiar properties, such as the absence of the fundamental modes, mode double degeneracy, and sign-varying energy ux. In particular, we predict the existence of novel types of guided waves with a dipole-vortex structure of the Pointing vector.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Plane waves with negative phase velocity in Faraday chiral mediums

The propagation of plane waves in a Faraday chiral medium is investigated. Conditions for the phase velocity to be directed opposite to the direction of power flow are derived for propagation in an arbitrary direction; simplified conditions which apply to propagation parallel to the distinguished axis are also established. These negative phase-velocity conditions are explored numerically using a representative Faraday chiral medium, arising from the homogenization of an isotropic chiral medium and a magnetically biased ferrite. It is demonstrated that the phase velocity may be directed opposite to power flow, provided that the gyrotropic parameter of the ferrite component medium is sufficiently large compared with the corresponding nongyrotropic permeability parameters.Comment: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

Plasma Wave Properties of the Schwarzschild Magnetosphere in a Veselago Medium

We re-formulate the 3+1 GRMHD equations for the Schwarzschild black hole in a Veselago medium. Linear perturbation in rotating (non-magnetized and magnetized) plasma is introduced and their Fourier analysis is considered. We discuss wave properties with the help of wave vector, refractive index and change in refractive index in the form of graphs. It is concluded that some waves move away from the event horizon in this unusual medium. We conclude that for the rotating non-magnetized plasma, our results confirm the presence of Veselago medium while the rotating magnetized plasma does not provide any evidence for this medium.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophys. Space Sc

Isothermal Plasma Wave Properties of the Schwarzschild de-Sitter Black Hole in a Veselago Medium

In this paper, we study wave properties of isothermal plasma for the Schwarzschild de-Sitter black hole in a Veselago medium. We use ADM 3+1 formalism to formulate general relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) equations for the Schwarzschild de-Sitter spacetime in Rindler coordinates. Further, Fourier analysis of the linearly perturbed GRMHD equations for the rotating (non-magnetized and magnetized) background is taken whose determinant leads to a dispersion relation. We investigate wave properties by using graphical representation of the wave vector, the refractive index, change in refractive index, phase and group velocities. Also, the modes of wave dispersion are explored. The results indicate the existence of the Veselago medium.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophys. Space Sci. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1101.0884 and arxiv:1007.285

Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media

We present a quantization scheme for the electromagnetic field interacting with atomic systems in the presence of dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric media, including left-handed material having negative real part of the refractive index. The theory is applied to the spontaneous decay of a two-level atom at the center of a spherical free-space cavity surrounded by magnetodielectric matter of overlapping band-gap zones. Results for both big and small cavities are presented, and the problem of local-field corrections within the real-cavity model is addressed.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, RevTe