Dimensional confinement and waveguide effect of Dyakonov surface waves in twisted confined media

We theoretically study Dyakonov surface waveguide modes that propagate along the planar strip interfacial waveguide between two uniaxial dielectrics. We demonstrate that owing to the one-dimensional electromagnetic confinement, Dyakonov surface waveguide modes can propagate in the directions that are forbidden for the classical Dyakonov surface waves at the infinite interface. We show that this situation is similar to a waveguide effect and formulate the resonance conditions at which Dyakonov surface waveguide modes exist. We demonstrate that the propagation of such modes without losses is possible. We also consider a case of two-dimensional confinement, where the interface between two anisotropic dielectrics is bounded in both orthogonal directions. We show that such a structure supports Dyakonov surface cavity modes. Analytical results are confirmed by comparing with full-wave solutions of Maxwell’s equations. We believe that our work paves the way toward new insights in the field of surface waves in anisotropic media.

Multilayered Transmission Lines on Quasi-planar Substrates With Anisotropic Medium

This paper exhibits the extension of the discrete mode matching (DMM) method to analyze conformal structures with anisotropy. It represents a simple formalism as a basis to analyze multilayered structures with quasi-planar anisotropic dielectric layers. The dyadic Green's function is then calculated using a full-wave equivalent circuit (FWEC) of the structure, where each layer is represented with the hybrid block consisting of the tangential field components. The application is demonstrated by computing propagation constants for partially filled quasi-planar waveguides and microstrip lines with isotropic, uniaxial and biaxial anisotropic dielectrics.

Photonic analogues of the Haldane and Kane-Mele models

The condensed matter Haldane and Kane-Mele models revolutionized the understanding of what is an “insulator,” as they unveiled novel classes of media that behave as metals near the surface, but are insulating in the bulk. Here, we propose exact electromagnetic analogues of these two influential models relying on a photonic crystal implementation of “artificial graphene” subject to an effective magnetic field. For the Haldane model, the required effective magnetic field for photons can be emulated with a spatially variable pseudo-Tellegen response. For the Kane-Mele model, the spin-orbit coupling can be mimicked using matched anisotropic dielectrics with identical permittivity and permeability, without requiring any form of bianisotropic couplings. Using full-wave numerical simulations and duality theory we verify that the nontrivial topology of the two proposed platforms results in the emergence of topologically protected gapless edge states at the interface with a trivial photonic insulator. Our theory paves the way for the emulation of the two condensed matter models in a photonic platform and determines another paradigm to observe topologically protected edge states in a fully reciprocal all-dielectric and non-uniform anisotropic metamaterial.

Cross-polarization suppression in C-shaped microstrip patch antenna employing anisotropic dielectrics

An anisotropic dielectric realized by layered ceramic structures was adopted to design a low cross-polarization C-shaped patch antenna. The anisotropic dielectric performs as a substrate and can cause additional cross-polarized fields which are able to cancel the cross-polarized fields generated by the C-shaped patch itself, and then reduce the cross-polarization level. Compared to the C-shaped patch antenna with an isotropic substrate, the cross-polarization of the proposed antenna is suppressed by more than 15[Formula: see text]dB with a little gain enhancement at 2.4[Formula: see text]GHz. The anisotropic dielectric has a little impact on the direction of the C-shaped patch antenna. The gain of the proposed C-shaped patch antenna is 6.8[Formula: see text]dB with a cross-polarization of [Formula: see text]28[Formula: see text]dB.