Directed Energy Beam Weapons the Dawn of a New Military Age

Aftermath of “Havana Syndrome” that took place in Cuba, at around 2016 – 2017 time-frame, where American diplomat got mysterious sickness, the dawn of a new military age was born, where directed energy weapons in form waves are now in play. Among concerned government agencies, they still cannot find the source of the sickness except, stating that whatever was the cause, it is unnatural source, but rather man-made weapons in form of high microwave beam weapon. However, this author with this short review is going to show a different perspective of directed energy beam weapons, knowingly that this type weapons are not anything new and scientist and engineer, at national laboratories, department of energy and defense level including some universities nation-wide have been involved with research and development of such direct energy weapons. The battles of tomorrow are not going to take place with speed of bullet or artillery shell, but rather will be fought with speed of light and electron, and that is why the new military age presents itself along with new innovative technologies that is discussed here in this short review. For purpose beam weapons as directed energy we are not taking under consideration, the high power energy laser, since it is beyond the scope of this short review, however we focus on wave frequencies that are falling within high power microwave bandwidth and we introduce another beam weapon’s concept that is known as scalar wave, which we know it as longitudinal scalar wave, that possibly can justify the above sickness caused by the unnatural source, which falls within a man-made source of energy that can travel long distance and penetrated even through Faraday’s cage and any other obstacle in front of very similar to behavior and characteristic of soliton wave. Whatever covert sound or high energy acoustic or wave weapon this man-made phenomena was or is will be discussed in this report with some means of science physics behind it. All scientific discussion in this short review is presentation of this author period

Microwave synthesis of Bessel, Bessel–Gauss, and Gaussian beams: a fully vectorial electromagnetic approach

Bessel, Bessel-Gauss, and Gaussian beams have widely been investigated in optics in the paraxial approximation, under the frame of a scalar wave theory. Such approximations can hardly be applied in the microwave/millimeter-wave range, where the vectorial nature of the electromagnetic fields cannot be neglected, and experimental realizations for some of these beams appeared only recently. In this work, we discuss the generation of Bessel, Bessel-Gauss, and Gaussian beams through a fully vectorial electromagnetic approach. The field derivation of all these beams is first illustrated and numerical evaluations are then reported to compare their different propagation and diffractive behaviors. Finally, an innovative approach for realizing such solutions with planar microwave devices exploiting leaky waves is demonstrated through accurate numerical simulations.

Topological polarization singularities in metaphotonics

Polarization singularities of vectorial electromagnetic fields locate at the positions where properties of polarization ellipses are not defined. First observed for conical diffraction in 1830s, polarization singularities have been studied systematically with the underlying concepts being reshaped and deepened by many pioneers of wave optics. Here we review the recent results on the generation and observation of polarization singularities in metaphotonics. We start with the discussion of polarization singularities in the Mie theory, where both electric and magnetic multipoles are explored from perspectives of local and global polarization properties. We then proceed with the discussion of various photonic-crystal structures, for which both near- and far-field patterns manifest diverse polarization singularities characterized by the integer Poincaré or more general half-integer Hopf indices (topological charges). Next, we review the most recent studies of conversions from polarization to phase singularities in scalar wave optics, demonstrating how bound states in the continuum can be exploited to generate directly optical vortices of various charges. Throughout our paper, we discuss and highlight several fundamental concepts and demonstrate their close connections and special links to metaphotonics. We believe polarization singularities can provide novel perspectives for light-matter manipulation for both fundamental studies and their practical applications.