A. V. Ivanov, A. N. Shalygin, A. V. Vedyaev, V. A. Ivanov, “Optical Magnus effect in metamaterials fabricated from ferromagnetic microwires”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2007, Volume 85, Issue 11,Pages <nobr>694

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Optical Magnus effect in metamaterials fabricated from ferromagnetic microwires

A. V. Ivanov^a, A. N. Shalygin^ab, A. V. Vedyaev^a, V. A. Ivanov^cb

^a M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
^b R&P VICHEL (High-Frequency Systems)
^c Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: In homogeneous negative phase velocity media, the Doppler and Cherenkov-Vavilov effects and the refraction and pressure of light are anomalous: they are inverse with respect to the corresponding effects in conventional media. Using the geometrical optics approximation, it is shown that the optical Magnus effect in inhomogeneous negative phase velocity media is also anomalous. The effect is demonstrated by considering a metamaterial consisting of parallel amorphous ferromagnetic microwires in a magnetic field. The metamaterial proves to be a left-handed one in the realistic region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The optical properties of such a left-handed medium can be controlled by the external magnetic field.

PACS: 41.20.Jb, 42.70.-a, 75.50.-y, 77.84.Lf, 78.20.-e, 81.07.-b

Received: 05.03.2007
Revised: 18.04.2007