Complex Aberration Effect in Moving Dispersive DNG Media: A Spacetime Algebra Approach
Matos, S.A.
; Canto, João R.
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Paiva, C. R.
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Barbosa, A.
Complex Aberration Effect in Moving Dispersive DNG Media: A Spacetime Algebra Approach, Proc Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symp. - PIERS, Cambridge, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 822 - 825, July, 2008.
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Abstract
Using spacetime algebra, the Doppler shift, aberration and the refractive index covariance, relating the co-moving and laboratory frames, are readily obtained. Lorentz transformations and the cumbersome constitutive relations in the laboratory frame are circumvented altogether. The theory of a moving double-negative medium (DNG) is developed by using alossless model to account for material dispersion. The normal surfaces and the Doppler effect are analyzed. We show that a complex index of refraction may arise in the laboratory frame as a result of a complex aberration effect. A physical interpretation for this new type of aberration is also presented.