The features of Mueller scattering matrix for two penetrable composite Faraday chiral cylinders

Abstract

The boundary-value procedure is employed to examine the Mueller scattering matrix elements for the scattered fields from two infinitely long, parallel, composite Faraday chiral circular cylinders at normal and oblique incidences, and the multiple scattering effect between such two bianisotropic cylinders is taken into consideration. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the influences of chirality and nonreciprocity as well as incident wave direction etc, on all the elements of Mueller matrix in the far field region of Faraday chiral cylinders, and it is shown that m_ij can give valuable information about the constitutive features of Faraday chiral objects.