Gain of an axially slotted cylinder covered with a chiral coating and embedded in a chiral medium

The gain characteristics of an axially slotted cylinder coated with a chiral layer and placed in another chiral background have been investigated using numerical simulations. The effects of various types of chiral coatings and chiral backgrounds upon the gain pattern have been studied. It is shown that an increase in the chirality of the coating enhances the gain in the forward direction and reduces the gain in the backward direction for the fixed chirality of the background. It is also studied that, by increasing the chirality of the background medium, the gain in the backward direction also increases. It is further found that the chiral nihility coating makes the gain pattern nearly isotropic, and this gain is almost independent of the chirality of the background chiral medium.