Anomalous Positive Refraction in an Anisotropic Left-Handed Medium

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（8）
• 页码范围: 2069-2072
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

We investigate the refraction phenomena of extraordinary light at a planar interface associated with a uniaxial left-handed medium. It is found that the anomalous positive refraction can occur at the interface from anisotropic right-handed medium to a uniaxially anisotropic left-handed medium. When the optical axis of a uniaxial left-handed medium is not normal or parallel to the interface, the refraction of the Poynting vector for the extraordinary waves can be either positive or negative depending on the incident angles, while the refraction of the wave vector is always negative. The physical essential of the anomalous positive refraction results from the anisotropy of uniaxial crystals.