Radiophysics

The propagation of magnetostatic waves in a ferromagnetic waveguide created by a step bias field is studied by numerical methods. Bias field configurations and frequencies are taken such that the width of the magnetic waveguide accommodates either only bulk waves or surface and bulk waves in combination. This work is an extension of earlier works, in which the propagation of surface waveguide modes was considered.     

Guidance of Surface Waves with Dielectric Waveguides Having Finite or Infinite Periodic Corrugations

A planar open dielectric waveguide with periodic rectangular corrugations is investigated in the case that surface wave is guided and propagates normally to the corrugation. Our approximate analysis with the propagation characteristics is to consider a corresponding bounded waveguide problem in which perfect electric or magnetic walls are introduced, and the periodic corrugation is regarded as consisting of step discontinuities connected by a length of uniform slab waveguide. By properly taking into account of both surface modes and only a few non-surface-modes, and using conservation of complex power technique (CCPT) as well as solution selection rule (SSR), we can readily derive propagation characteristics in the Bragg interaction region. The calculated results show an excellent agreement with previously published ones.     

NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION OF STEP DISCONTINUITY WITH GENERALIZED CONSERVATION OF COMPLEX POWER TECHNIQUE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ANALYZING PERIODIC DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES

The propagation of electromagnetic waves along open periodic, dielectric waveguides is formulated in the case that surface wave is guided and propagates normally to the corrugation. Our approximate analysis with the propagation characteristics is to consider a corresponding bounded waveguide problem in which perfect electric or magnetic walls are introduced, and the periodic corrugation is regarded as consisting of step discontinuities connected by a length of uniform slab waveguide. By properly taking into account of both surface modes and only a few non-surface-modes, a novel network approach is proposed for characterizing step discontinuity based on the generalized conservation of complex power technique (GCCPT). Employing solution selection rule (SSR), we can readily derive propagation characteristics in the Bragg interaction region. A number of numerical results are shown to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach.     

Propagation and Attenuation Characteristics of Waveguide Containing Uniaxial Anisotropic Moving Warm Plasma

The propagation, attenuation, cutoff characteristics, and power flow in a rectangular waveguide filled with a relativistically moving collisionless warm plasma for TE (transverse-electric) and TM (transverse-magnetic) modes are investigated in the presence of strong longitudinal magnetic field. The consideration of the attenuation (neglected by previous workers) leads to change in all the propagation characteristics of the waveguide.     

Guided modes in asymmetric metal-cladding left-handed material waveguides

We investigate guided modes in the asymmetric waveguide structure with a left-handed material (LHM) layer surrounded by air and metal. A graphical method is proposed to determine the guided modes. New properties of the oscillating and surface guided modes, such as absence of the fundamental mode, coexistence of the oscillating and surface guided modes, fast attenuation of the surface guided modes, and mode degeneracy, are analyzed in detail. We also investigate dispersive characteristics of the metal-LHM- air optical waveguide. The propagation constant increases with decreasing slab thickness for the first-order oscillating mode, which is different from that in traditional metal-cladding waveguides.     

Guided modes in slab waveguides with a left handed material cover or substrate

We study guided modes propagating along a dielectric slab waveguide with a left handed material (LHM) cover or substrate. The dispersion relation is derived by using normalized waveguide parameters. An analytical method is then proposed to calculate the universal dispersion curves. Different from a slab waveguide with a LHM core, we find that guidance properties are strongly dependent on dielectric permittivity ε and magnetic permeability μ of the substrate and cover layers. For oscillating guided modes, fundamental zero order mode is not always absence, sometimes it exists in a restricted range of normalized propagation constant. First order mode behaves as other higher order modes and exists up to infinite high frequency. Higher order modes have no double degeneracy in the case of LHM cover layer. For surface guided modes, the existence and the type of the mode solutions with respect to different parameters are classified systematically and discussed in detail. Unlike a slab waveguide with a LHM core where the dispersion curve of TE₁ surface mode continues with that of oscillating TE₁ mode, the dispersion curve of TE₁ surface mode continues with that of oscillating TE₀ mode. It seems that the two different kinds of modes compensate each other to form one whole mode. Both TE and TM guided modes are discussed.     

光折变表面波诱导的薄层波导中的导波模式

利用数值模拟对扩散非线性机制下由光折变表面波诱导的薄层波导中导模的形成和特点进行了研究。采用分布傅里叶法对导模的传输特性进行了模拟。通过求解本征方程,对光折变表面波诱导的薄层波导中存在的导波模式进行了数值求解。通过调节传播常数和波导参数的方法,可以控制导模的阶数和传播波形。随着阶数的增加,导模轮廓的对称性越来越差;随着波导参数的增加,导模的峰值振幅单调递增。导模的能量主要聚集在晶体薄层波导中靠近-c轴的一侧,随着传播常数的增大,导模能量先减小后增大,且导模可以稳定传播。     

Two-channel waveguide modulator based on surface wave propagating in a semiconductor-metal thin-film structure

The results of theoretical investigations of two-channel waveguide modulator based on Surface Wave (SW) propagation are presented. The structure studied consists of twon-type semiconductor waveguide channels separated from each other by a dielectric gap and coated by a metal. The SW propagates at the semiconductormetal interface across an external magnetic field which is parallel to the interface. An external de voltage is applied to the metal surface of one channel to provide a small phase shift between two propagating modes. In a coupled mode approximation, two possible regimes of operation of the structure, namely as a directional coupler and as an electro-optical modulator, are considered. Our results suggest new applications in millimeter and submillimeter wave solid-state electronics and integrated optics.     

Full-vectorial analysis of bending waveguides using finite difference method based on H-fields in cylindrical coordinate systems

A full-vectorial (FV) analysis of optical dielectric waveguide bends by using finite difference (FD) method in terms of magnetic field components is developed in a local cylindrical coordinate system. The perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary conditions via the complex coordinate stretching technique are incorporated into the FV wave equations for effectively demonstrating the leaky nature of waveguide bends, and a six-point FD scheme is constructed to approximate the cross-coupling terms for improving the convergent behavior. The leaky modes of a typical rib waveguide bend are calculated and the complex propagation constants and the field patterns for TE- and TM-like modes are obtained. Solutions are good agreement with those from the film mode matching method, which shows the validity and utility of the established method.     

Frequency response of metal clad planar optical waveguides

The propagation characteristics of metal clad planar optical waveguide as a function of wavelength are investigated theoretically for Al, Ag, and Au. The results obtained show that attenuation of the propagation modes in these guides is highly dependent on wavelength, which can be used to design an efficient integrated optical waveguide polarizer with high extinction ratios, or to select the wavelength for the surface plasmon based metal clad optical waveguide sensors. It is observed that Al is the only metal that still supports the surface plasmons in the UV region.     

Structure of modes of smoothly irregular three-dimensional integrated optical four-layer waveguide

An asymptotic method is used for researching an integrated optical multilayer waveguide satisfying the condition of the smooth modification of the shape of the studied three-dimensional structure. Three-dimensional fields of smoothly deforming modes of the integrated optical waveguide are described analytically. An evident dependence of the contributions that the first order of smallness makes to the amplitudes of the electrical and magnetic fields of the quasi-waveguide modes is obtained. The canonical type of equations describing the propagation of quasi-TE and quasi-TM modes in the smoothly irregular part of a four-layer integrated optical waveguide is represented for an asymptotic method. With the help of the method of coupled waves and the perturbation theory method, the shifts of complex propagation constants for quasi-TE and quasi-TM modes are obtained in an explicit form. The elaborated theory is applicable for an analysis of similar structures of dielectric materials, magnetic materials, and metamaterials over a wide enough range of electromagnetic wavelengths.     

等离子体金属波导在外磁场调制下的传输模式

在通信系统中波导的设计向着多功能和可调制方向发展。波导基于等离子体金属材料在外磁场作用下设计平面波导。等离子体金属材料在外磁场作用下会产生表面等离子体激元和非互易传播双重功能。从基本的麦克斯韦方程和边界条件出发,详细推导了模式的色散方程,并根据模式特征进行了分类。波导具有明显的非互易传播和可调制的特性。     

金属包层对称平面单轴晶体波导的模式场(Ⅱ)

对于晶体光轴平行于波导界面的结构,讨论了光在金属包层对称平面单轴晶体波导(波导层是单轴晶体,两个波导界面均为金属)内的传输特性.解析地得到了这种结构下波导模式场的精确解.模式场的性质因单轴晶体的性质不同而异.对于正单轴晶体,波导的主模是横电波,任何频率的光波均可激励该模式;当频率满足一定条件时,波导内传输单模,否则,将激励起高阶模式.高阶模既非TE波,也非TM波,而是两者耦合而成的混合模.对于负单轴晶体,波导的主模是一种混合模,该模式同样可被任何频率的光波所激励;当频率满足一定条件时,波导内传输单模,否则 关键词： 平面金属波导 单轴晶体 模式场 混合模     

Ion-implanted Nd:YVO(4) planar waveguide: refractive-index characterization and propagation mode reduction

We report for what is believed to be the first time planar waveguide formation and propagation mode reduction in Nd:YVO(4) crystal, which were achieved by 3.0-MeV silicon-ion implantation followed by annealing under specific conditions. After the implantation, an enhanced refractive-index region was formed with a width of ~2microm beneath the sample surface to act as a waveguide structure. We found that there were four propagation modes for the as-implanted Nd:YVO(4) waveguide, whereas after annealing at 240-360 degrees C for several hours the number of modes could be reduced to three, two, and one. After annealing at 400 degrees C for 1 h the monomode waveguide was destroyed completely, and no mode was observed in the sample.     

Field Analysis of a Metal-Coated Planar Waveguide with Chiral Core

Eigenequations for a metal-coated planar chiral dielectric waveguide and a mirror-conjugate planar chiral dielectric waveguide are derived. The eigenequations are given in simple formulations. The results indicate that the perfect conductive (or magnetic) boundary can produce mirror-conjugate of chiral media and the left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized modes couple with each other due to the conductive boundary. The propagation characteristics of a metal-coated planar waveguide with chiral core are presented. An interesting phenomenon is observed that the field distributions vary with respect to the operating wavelength.     

Grazing diffraction of X-ray radiation in a planar single-crystal waveguide

The propagation of an X-ray beam through a plane-parallel waveguide is studied with allowance for Bragg grazing diffraction on the crystalline structure of the plates. Expressions for the waveguide modes are obtained and nondecaying waveguide modes are shown to exist at angles that are larger than the critical one (the angle of total external reflection), which permits one to increase the capture angle of radiation incident on the waveguide. The calculated intensity at the waveguide output is compared with the intensity of waveguide modes in the absence of grazing diffraction in the waveguide material.     

Guided-Wave Characteristics with Periodic Dielectric Waveguides of Finite Length

A novel network approach is proposed to analyze periodic dielectric waveguide of finite length. Our approximate analysis is to consider a bounded waveguide problem in which perfectly-conducting walls are introduced, and the periodic corrugation is regarded as consisting of step discontinuities connected by a length of uniform slab waveguide. Application of conservation of complex power technique (CCPT) allows us to take into account of both surface modes and only a few non-surface-modes, and readily derive propagation characteristics of the wave-guide with finite periodic corrugations around Bragg interaction region.     

Guided modes in graphene waveguides with magnetic-electric barrier

An analysis of guided modes in graphene waveguides in the presence of magnetic-electric barrier is presented. The graphene waveguide is controlled by the gate voltages and the magnetic field by depositing two parallel ferromagnets on a dielectric layer. Both in the classical motion and Klein tunneling cases, the fundamental modes exist with the applied magnetic field. The electron wave propagation can be modulated in two different ways by changing the magnetic intensity or the incident energy. We hope that these characteristics can provide potential applications in the graphene-based waveguide devices.     

Excitation of anti-symmetric coupled spoof SPPs in 3D SIS waveguides based on coupling

According to the electromagnetic field distributions, there exist two kinds of coupled spoof surface plasmon polaritons(SSPPs), the symmetric and anti-symmetric modes, in the three-dimensional(3D) subwavelength spoof–insulator–spoof(SIS) waveguide. We study the dispersion and excitation of the two kinds of coupled SSPPs supported by the 3D SIS waveguide. The evolution of the dispersion with the thickness and gap width of the waveguide is numerically investigated,and we give a theoretical analysis according to the coupling mechanism. Specially, based on the coupling mechanism,we design a zipper structure, through which the excitation and propagation of the anti-symmetric coupled modes can be realized effectively.     

Active modulation of plasmonic signal with a subwavelength metal/nonlinear dielectric material/metal structure

<正>Light propagation through a metal/nonlinear dielectric material/metal(M-NL-M) structure is numerically studied.The design parameters of the M-NL-M structure are found with the waveguide theory so that the structure only supports the symmetric surface plasmon polaritons(SPP(0)) mode and the antisymmetric surface plasmon polaritons(SPP(1)) mode.The coupling between the two modes within the M-NL-M structure is exploited.Through controlling the propagation constants of the two modes with the intensity-dependent dielectric constant of the nonlinear Kerr material,an effective all-optical control of plasmonic signal modulator can be realized with this M-NL-M structure.