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Electromagnetic metasurfaces enable the advanced control of surface-wave propagation by spatially tailoring the local surface reactance. Interestingly, tailoring the surface resistance distribution in space provides new, largely unexplored…

We show that there exists an exact solution for a lossless and reciprocal periodic surface impedance which ensures full conversion of a single-mode surface wave propagating along the impedance boundary to a single plane wave propagating…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Svetlana N. Tcvetkova , Stefano Maci , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves is a well-established property of lossy, anisotropic, two-dimensionally chiral patterns. Here we show that asymmetric transmission can be observed for oblique incidence onto any lossy…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-18 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

We investigate the transition radiation on a periodically deformed interface between two dielectric media. Under the assumption that the dielectric permittivities of the media are close, a formula is derived for the spectral-angular…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-16 A. R. Mkrtchyan , A. P. Potylitsyn , V. R. Kocharyan , A. A. Saharian

The geometric representation at a fixed frequency of the wavevector (or dispersion) surface $\omega(\vec k)$ for lossless, homogeneous dielectric--magnetic uniaxial materials is explored, when the elements of the relative permittivity and…

Here we develop a general theory of mode transformation (diffraction) at the flat transverse boundary between cold magnetized electron plasma and isotropic vacuum-like medium inside a circular waveguide. The obtained results can be also…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Sergey N. Galyamin

We investigate the existence and the dispersion characteristics of surface waves that propagate at an interface between metal-dielectric superlattice and isotropic dielectric. Within the long wavelength limit, when the effective-medium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Slobodan M. Vukovic , Juan J. Miret , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodriguez , Zoran Jaksic

A classical optics waveguide structure is proposed to simulate resonances of short range one-dimensional potentials in quantum mechanics. The analogy is based on the well known resemblance between the guided and radiation modes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

A dispersion equation for the interface waves has been derived for the interface of two cubic crystals in the plane perpendicular to [001]. A reasonable hypothesis has been made about the total number of the acoustic modes. Due to this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Ponomarev , A. L. Efros

In some anisotropic bulk media (for example, biaxial weakly absorbing crystals) there are special directions along which the plane wave field distribution has a singular profile of the form $\propto (\mathbf{n} \mathbf{r}) \exp(i q…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 K. Yu. Golenitskii , N. S. Averkiev

Waveguides are critically important components in microwave, THz, and optical technologies. Due to recent progress in two-dimensional materials, metasurfaces can be efficiently used to design novel waveguide structures which confine the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 X. Ma , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

The application of transformation optics to the development of intriguing electromagnetic devices can produce weakly anisotropic or isotropic media with the assistance of quasi-conformal and/or conformal mapping, as opposed to the strongly…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-03 Xiaoyu Zhao , Hong Deng , Xiaoke Gao , Xikui Ma , Tianyu Dong

In this paper, a novel concept of a leaky-wave antenna is proposed, based on the use of Huygens' metasurfaces. It consists of a parallel-plate waveguide in which the top plate is replaced by a bianisotropic metasurface of the Omega type. It…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Elena Abdo-Sánchez , Michael Chen , Ariel Epstein , George V. Eleftheriades

In this paper, theoretical and numerical studies of perfect/nearly-perfect conversion of a plane wave into a surface wave are presented. The problem of determining the electromagnetic properties of an inhomogeneous lossless boundary which…

This paper presents a technique, combining the integral equations (IE) and the Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) with bianisotropic susceptibility tensors, to compute electromagnetic wave scattering by cylindrical metasurfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mojtaba Dehmollaian , Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

We propose a leaky optical waveguide achieved with a uniaxially anisotropic metamaterial that supports both forward and backward leaky waves. The backward leaky nature is exploited in a sub-diffraction imaging system.

Optics · Physics 2009-12-22 Huikan Liu , Kevin J. Webb

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

Linear acoustic wave-splitting is an often used tool in describing sound-wave propagation through earth's subsurface. Earth's subsurface is in general anisotropic due to the presence of water-filled porous rocks. Due to the complexity and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 B. L. G. Jonsson , M. Norgren

This work is concerned with the propagation of electromagnetic waves in isotropic chiral media and with the effects produced by a plane boundary between two such media. In analogy with the phenomena of reflection and refraction of plane…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal