Radiation properties of a flanged parallel-plate waveguide loaded with an ε-μ general anisotropic slab

In this analysis, the excitation is taken to be either (1) the lowest-order transverse electric (TE) or the lowest-order transverse magnetic (TM) (i.e. transverse electromagnetic) waves, or (2) a uniform, E- or H-polarized, incident plane wave. As a result of the anisotropy, cross-polarization effects are observed. The formulation of the boundary-value problem is carried out in the Fourier transform domain. Considerable contraction results by using previously developed matrix analysis techniques. In this way, a fruitful integral representation of the tangential components of the magnetic field is first derived in terms of the tangential components of the electric field at the excitation aperture. Next, and after imposing the boundary conditions at the aperture boundary surface, this representation is used as the starting point for a solution on the basis of a moment method (MM) approach using the eigenmodes as basis and weighting functions. Numerical results related to the reflection and coupling coefficients as well as the directive diagrams of the structure are presented in graphical form for various cases