Plane Waves in Materials with Optical Rotation

2 Plane Waves in Materials with Optical Rotation 

In this case the material is characterized by e - = e8, py = jj.8-, - = tM jiyS. and Q, j = 0. The parameter y is the rotary power. This material couples the electric and magnetic fields, and the Maxwell curl equations are 

The time dependence of the electric field is still e mt, so that its spatial dependence is described by 

For light propagating along the z axis, this leads to the following equations for the components of the electric vector  

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