Electromagnetic scattering by a homogeneous chiral obstacle: scattering relations and the far‐field operator

Time‐harmonic electromagnetic waves are scattered by a homogeneous chiral obstacle. The reciprocity principle, the basic scattering theorem and an optical theorem are proved. These results are used to prove that if the chirality measure of the obstacle is real, then the far‐field operator is normal. Moreover, it is shown that the eigenvalues of the far‐field operator are the same as the eigenvalues of Waterman's T‐matrix. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.