Guided electromagnetic waves for periodic arrays of thin metallic wires near an interface between two dielectric media.

Abstract

Guided localized electromagnetic waves propagating along one-dimensional (1D) arrays of thin metallic parallel wires, finite and infinite, are studied. The arrays are embedded into the upper dielectric half-space close to the interface separating it from the lower dielectric medium with different permittivity and the same permeability. Firstly, a dependence of resonance frequencies of excited wave modes for finite array with respect to the array height above the interface is studied. The array is excited by a normally incident plane wave. It is important that the order of the resonance modes changes if the distance between the array and the interface becomes small. An analysis, based on the Pocklington system of integral equations to evaluate resonance frequencies and compute the fields of excited modes above the array, was applied. This approach is based on the longwave approximation of thin wires. Secondly, the waves propagating along infinite 1D array of thin metallic wires that is close to the interface are studied. Dispersion curves are presented for the lowest case of half-wave resonance for different heights of the array over the interface. When the array approaches very close to the interface an anomalous dispersion is observed. The results of the numerical analysis were tested against computations obtained by means of other independent CST Studio Suite simulations.