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Gao et al. Vol. 26, No. 11 /November 2009 /J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2399

Dyakonov–Tamm wave guided by a twist defect ina structurally chiral material: erratum

Jun Gao,1,2,* Akhlesh Lakhtakia,1 John A. Polo, Jr.,3 and Mingkai Lei2

1NanoMM—Nanoengineered Metamaterials Group, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, PennsylvaniaState University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

2Surface Engineering Laboratory, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024, China

3Department of Physics and Technology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444, USA*Corresponding author: [email protected]

Received September 21, 2009; accepted September 21, 2009;posted September 21, 2009 (Doc. ID 117541); published October 16, 2009

© 2009 Optical Society of AmericaOCIS codes: 160.1190, 240.6690, 260.2110.

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n error in Eq. (A6) of our paper in J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26,615 (2009) and three corresponding figures are corrected.

In Eq. (A6) of [1], there were errors in the last twoerms between the curly brackets. Equation (A6) shouldead as

ez�zn±� = � �d

�a�b��− � �

��o�hy�zn

±�

+ ��a − �b�sin 2�

2 �ex�zn±�cos��

�zn

± ± ��+ hey�zn

±�sin��

�zn

± ± ����, n � 1,��. �1�

he corresponding plots in Figs. 5(a), 6(a), and 7(a) areorrected here for the ez

±�z� as Figs. 1–3. Our conclusionstill hold. We regret the inadvertent errors.

Fig. 1. (Color online) Corrected Fig. 5(a) of [1].

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EFERENCES1. J. Gao, A. Lakhtakia, J. A. Polo, Jr., and M. K. Lei,

“Dyakonov–Tamm wave guided by a twist defect in astructurally chiral material,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26,1615–1621 (2009).

Fig. 2. (Color online) Corrected Fig. 6(a) of [1].

Fig. 3. (Color online) Corrected Fig. 7(a) of [1].

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