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Abstract
The interaction of electromagnetic waves with multilayers of subwavelength thicknesses (nanoresonators) including the main layer made of a bi-isotropic material or metamaterial sandwiched between pairs of dielectric, epsilon-near-zero or metallic spacer layers has been modeled. The analytical model and numerical analysis are based on the exact and general solution of the electromagnetic boundary problem. The effects of birefringence, dichroism, chirality, nonreciprocity and new possibilities of their control and amplification, the conditions of excitation and features of proper waves inside of the bi-isotropic layer for various parameters of the nanoresonator geometry and components (in particular, metamaterials) and incident radiation are considered. It is shown that bi-isotropic effects in the one-layer chiral and nonreciprocal system can be significantly modified and amplified using the investigated nanoresonators.
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Evgenii Starodubtsev
Evgenii G. Starodubtsev graduated from Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) in 1991 with a degree in Physics. He received a PhD degree in Optics from Gomel State University in 1996. Now he works as an associate professor at Gomel State Technical University (Information Technology Chair), Gomel, Belarus. His research interests are electrodynamics, photonics, optics of metamaterials, mathematical modeling, teaching methods in the field of information technologies.