Electromagnetic jet produced with loaded waveguide ended by an optimized multi-rectangular sections tip

Abstract

Previous works have demonstrated that a parallel plate waveguide, equipped at the end with a tip, can be used to initiate an “electromagnetic jet (Ej)” (this name generalizes the photonic jet (Pj) phenomenon regardless of the wavelength). In addition to being easy to manufacture, a rectangular shape improves energy concentration, however concurrently the full-width at half maximum (FWHM) is slightly degraded. This article aims to introduce tips with multi-rectangular sections reducing the drawbacks previously mentioned. This article proposes the use of Aperiodic Polynomial Modal Method (A-PMM) as an efficient yet robust method to model and optimize an outgoing Ej, equipped with this kind of dielectric tips. Thus, a three rectangular sections tip can improve energy concentration and can reduce the FWHM beyond the diffraction limit compared to a single section tip.