Propagation properties of surface TM modes in a hollow slab waveguide with a left-handed material substrate

Author

Li, Suping ; Wang, Zihua ; Wu, Wei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Zhengzhou Univ. of Light Ind., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1145

Lastpage

1149

Abstract

We study the propagation properties of surface TM modes in a hollow slab waveguide which consists of the core and cover of right-handed material (RHM) and the substrate of left-handed material (LHM). Normalized frequency, normalized propagation constant and asymmetry measure are introduced to the left-handed material hollow slab waveguide. Dispersion relation is derived by using these normalized parameters, and universal dispersion curves have been obtained by solving transcendental dispersion equations analytically. We discuss the existence condition and other dispersion properties of guided surface TM modes in detail.

Keywords

light propagation; metamaterials; optical dispersion; optical materials; optical waveguide theory; dispersion relation; guided surface TM modes; hollow slab waveguide; left-handed material substrate; normalized frequency; normalized propagation constant; transcendental dispersion equations; Dispersion; Hollow waveguides; Industries; Slabs; Variable speed drives; hollow slab waveguide; left-handed material; propagation properties; surface TM modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT), 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6769-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBNMT.2010.5705269

Filename

5705269