We analyze the propagation of an electromagnetic plane wave through a chiral medium moving with a constant velocity and endowed with the Post constitutive relations. The covariance under the Lorentz group of Maxwell’s equations and of Post’s relations is used to transform the electromagnetic fields in the moving frame into fields in the frame of a fixed observer. The physical consequences of th...

During the last decade, a major research interest is focused on optical sensors for chemical and biosensing application relaying on refractive index (RI) measurements. Among this class of optical sensors the waveguides confined inside of photonic crystals are of high interest. The application of such RI optical sensors is interesting for both gaseous and aqueous samples and includes measurement...

Waves in periodic media, whose propagation is governed by nearest neighbour interaction, are investigated. The reflection and transmission coefficients are derived for a plane wave incident from medium 1 upon medium 2, without invoking common approximations. The derivation is valid for a class of waves including magnetoand electro-inductive waves, waves on short loaded dipoles, nanoparticles, c...

It is shown that under very general conditions there is a rigorous identity between the group velocity and the velocity of energy transport in nonhomogeneous media with or without anomalous dispersion. The medium is assumed nondissipative and the parameters such as density, rigidity, dielectric constant, etc., vary from point to point but are independent of the Cartesian coordinate lying in the...

The propagation environment of electromagnetic waves in mine tunnels is confined areas. The mine tunnel is regard as wave-guide which contains kinds of un-beneficial medium, the field formulas of different polarization waves were presented based on Marcatili method, and field prediction of horizontal and vertical polarization waves were simulated. The results showed that propagation effect of v...