ON FRESNEL-AIRY EQUATIONS, FABRY-PEROT RESONANCES AND SURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN ARBITRARY BIANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS

Abstract

We introduce a theory of optical responses of bianisotropic layers with arbitrary effective medium parameters, which results in generalized Fresnel-Airy equations for reflection and transmission coefficients at all incidence directions and polarizations. The poles of these equations provide explicit expressions for the dispersion of Fabry-Perot resonances and surface electromatic waves in bianisotropic layers and interfaces. The existence conditions of these resonances are topologically related to the zeros of the high-k characteristic function h(k) = 0 of bulk bianisotropic materials and taxonomy of bianisotropic media according to the hyperbolic topological classes [32, 33].