13–19 Jun 2015
University of Alberta
America/Edmonton timezone
Welcome to the 2015 CAP Congress! / Bienvenue au congrès de l'ACP 2015!

Generalized Waveguide Theory including Electromagnetic Duality

17 Jun 2015, 14:30
15m
CCIS L2-200 (University of Alberta)

CCIS L2-200

University of Alberta

Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition) Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC) W2-10 Spectroscopy and Optics (DAMOPC) / Spectroscopie et optique (DPAMPC)

Speaker

Mrs Nafiseh Sang-Nourpour (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada ; Photonics Group, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51665-163, Iran)

Description

We introduce a general theory for describing modes and characteristics of linear, homogeneous, isotropic waveguide materials and metamaterials with slab and cylindrical geometries. Our theory accommodates exotic media such as double-negative-index and near-zero-index metamaterials as special cases, and we demonstrate that our general theory exhibits electromagnetic duality that would arise if we were to incorporate magnetic monopoles into the media. To ensure manifest electromagnetic duality, we construct generic electromagnetic susceptibilities for the constituent materials using a generalized Lorentz-Drude model that manifests this duality, and our model reduces to standard cases in appropriate limits. Using our theory, we present and explain intriguing modes arising in waveguides that exploit such exotic materials and metamaterials. In particular, we show that, in slab and cylindrical hollow-core metamaterial waveguides, exchanging electric and magnetic material properties leads to the exchange of transverse magnetic and transverse electric modes, which suggests a good test of the potential duality of waveguides. We appreciate financial support from the NSERC and AITF.

Primary author

Mrs Nafiseh Sang-Nourpour (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada ; Photonics Group, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51665-163, Iran)

Co-authors

Prof. Barry C. Sanders (Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada; Program in Quantum Information Science, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada) Dr Benjamin R Lavoie (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada; and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada) Dr Reza Kheradmand (Photonics Group, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51665-163, Iran)

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