Reply to comment on 'Energy conservation and the constitutive relations in chiral and non-reciprocal media'

Barnett, Steve M. and Cameron, Robert P (2016) Reply to comment on 'Energy conservation and the constitutive relations in chiral and non-reciprocal media'. Journal of Optics (United Kingdom), 18. 068002. ISSN 2040-8986 (https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/068002)

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Abstract

We respond to the comment by Mackay and Lakhtakia on our paper. These authors have missed the simple point that our chirality and non-reciprocity parameters are real. The ‘inconsistency’ claimed by them emerges from their incorrect attempt to apply our results instead to complex chirality and non-reciprocity parameters.