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Main Author: Qin, Yifeng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09150
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author Qin, Yifeng
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contents The investigation and analysis of exotic physical phenomena facilitated by metamaterials have emerged as a compelling area of interest in physics, material science, and engineering. However, there remains a lack of suitable theoretical tools for scrutinizing light-matter interactions in metamedia, particularly those involving distinct constitutive tensors, such as polarization cross-coupling or non-reciprocal propagation induced by bianisotropy. In this research, we apply the generalized transfer matrix method and matrix Fourier Optics to devise a novel hybrid methodology adept at efficiently tracing an optical beam as it propagates through transverse-homogeneous, longitudinal-inhomogeneous bianisotropic media. Our proof-of-concept demonstration elucidates the interaction between a nonparaxial Gaussian incident beam with various linear/circular polarizations and a mismatched anisotropic double-negative (DNG) metamaterial. We unveil the nontrivial bifocal effect and optical vortex (OV) generation and focusing phenomena in a three-dimensional environment, findings that have not been documented previously. Significantly, the proposed efficient methodology holds the potential for application in examining more promising physical phenomena exhibited by intricate metamaterials, enabling a more visually rigorous approach.
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spellingShingle Non-trivial Bifocal and Optical Vortex Generation of DNG Materials Unveiled by Generalized Transfer Matrix Method and Matrix Fourier Optics
Qin, Yifeng
Optics
Applied Physics
The investigation and analysis of exotic physical phenomena facilitated by metamaterials have emerged as a compelling area of interest in physics, material science, and engineering. However, there remains a lack of suitable theoretical tools for scrutinizing light-matter interactions in metamedia, particularly those involving distinct constitutive tensors, such as polarization cross-coupling or non-reciprocal propagation induced by bianisotropy. In this research, we apply the generalized transfer matrix method and matrix Fourier Optics to devise a novel hybrid methodology adept at efficiently tracing an optical beam as it propagates through transverse-homogeneous, longitudinal-inhomogeneous bianisotropic media. Our proof-of-concept demonstration elucidates the interaction between a nonparaxial Gaussian incident beam with various linear/circular polarizations and a mismatched anisotropic double-negative (DNG) metamaterial. We unveil the nontrivial bifocal effect and optical vortex (OV) generation and focusing phenomena in a three-dimensional environment, findings that have not been documented previously. Significantly, the proposed efficient methodology holds the potential for application in examining more promising physical phenomena exhibited by intricate metamaterials, enabling a more visually rigorous approach.
title Non-trivial Bifocal and Optical Vortex Generation of DNG Materials Unveiled by Generalized Transfer Matrix Method and Matrix Fourier Optics
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09150