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Reply to Comment on ‘No circular birefringence exists in a chiral medium: an analysis of single-mode refraction’

Year: 2024

Type: letter

Abstract: Based on their finding that the circularly polarized Beltrami fields are solutions to their eigenvalue equation (7), the authors of preceding Comment claim that the linearly polarized basis is inapplicable to light waves in an isotropic chiral medium. We show that the analysis is flawed. The reason is twofold. Firstly, we prove that the Beltrami fields are, by definition, not a polarization basis for both the electric and magnetic fields of light waves in the chiral medium. Secondly, we demonstrate that linearly polarized and circularly polarized waves in the chiral medium are on the same footing if the electric and magnetic fields, rather than the Beltrami fields, are considered.

Source: New Journal of Physics

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad9ac6

Authors: Zhi-Juan Hu, Chun-Fang Li

Institutions: Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai University

Language: English

Topic: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,485

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China