An integral approach is presented in the theory of surface electromagnetic waves propagating along the plane interface of bianisotropic non-absorbing media including optically active gyrotropic and bigyrotropic ones. This approach gives a uniform way of obtaining the dispersion equation for surface polaritons for an arbitrary cut section of the bianisotropic crystals and allows us to establish the existence conditions of surface polaritons. An example of application of this approach for the boundary of bianisotropic and isotropic media is given.

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The problem of the surface polariton existence in symmetry planes of nonmagnetic biaxial crystals is studied theoretically. The plane interface of such a crystal and a semi-infinite isotropic medium is considered. With the use of the integral formalism formulated in our earlier work, the dispersion equation is derived for the polaritons under consideration. The existence conditions for the dispersion equation solutions are obtained in the form of algebraic inequalities for principal values of inverse dielectric permittivity tensors. If these conditions are satisfied, then excitation of surface waves is possible along the allowed propagation directions, which constitute sectors in the interface plane. Exact expressions are obtained that determine location of these sectors with respect to the symmetry axes of the crystal.

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