NEGATIVE REFRACTION OR NEGATIVE SPATIAL HARMONIC RESONANCE?

 

A. Yu. Vetluzhsky

Institute of Physical Materials Science of the Siberian Branch of RAS

 

The paper is received on on December 17, 2015

 

Abstract. From a consideration of the diffraction of waves on one-dimensional arrays it is explained the physical mechanism leading to the effects of negative refraction at the boundary of photonic crystals.

Keywords: electromagnetic crystals, refractive index, negative refraction, diffraction.