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A detailed study on the lateral displacements of a transverse magnetic (TM) wave transmitted and reflected from a symmetric gyrotropic slab is presented. We give the analytic formulas for the transmission coefficient and the reflection coefficient, as well as the corresponding lateral displacements. It is found that due to the external magnetic field the displacement of a transmitted beam is different from that of reflected one, even for a lossless symmetric configuration. Furthermore, within the chosen frequency band, when the incident angle is near the Brewster angle, the shift of a reflected wave can be large with nonzero reflectance, and can be positive or negative depending on the direction of the applied magnetic field and the incident wave.
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Huang, H., Fan, Y., Wu, BI. et al. Positively and negatively large Goos–Hänchen lateral displacements from a symmetric gyrotropic slab. Appl. Phys. A 94, 917–922 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-008-4858-7
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