Distributed-circuit-element description of guided-wave structures and cavities involving double-negative or single-negative media

Andrea Alu; Nader Engheta

doi:10.1117/12.506041

9 July 2003 Distributed-circuit-element description of guided-wave structures and cavities involving double-negative or single-negative media

Andrea Alu, Nader Engheta

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 5218, Complex Mediums IV: Beyond Linear Isotropic Dielectrics; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506041
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Materials with negative real effective permittivity and permeability (also known as "double-negative (DNG)" media) may exhibit interesting features that lead to unconventional phenomena in guidance of electromagnetic waves. As one such class of problems, in some of our earlier works we studied the guided wave propagation in structures containing a layer of DNG material paired with a slab of conventional (i.e., "double-positive (DPS)") material. In particular, we showed that such a DNG-DPS bilayer has unusual properties as a guided-wave structure. For instance, a parallel-plate waveguide filled with a pair of parallel lossless DNG and DPS layers may support dominant TE and TM modes that can propagate even when the waveguide total thickness is electrically very small. In the present work, we underline the possibility to explain some of the unconventional EM characteristics of such paired DPS-DNG waveguides and cavities using the distributed-circuit-element approach with appropriate choice of elements. The negative nature of the real part of permittivity and/or permeability affects the choice of such distributed circuit elements, and in turn the overall circuit structure exhibits certain natural "resonances" that may not be present when conventional materials are employed in such waveguides or cavities. The "circuit-element" approach can also be applied to "single-negative (SNG)" layers, in which only one of the material parameters, not both, has negative real part. Here, we first present a brief overview of our work on modal analysis in waveguides and cavities with DNG or SNG layers, and we then present our results on their distributed-circuit-element modeling.

Citation Download Citation

Andrea Alu and Nader Engheta "Distributed-circuit-element description of guided-wave structures and cavities involving double-negative or single-negative media", Proc. SPIE 5218, Complex Mediums IV: Beyond Linear Isotropic Dielectrics, (9 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506041

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available