Existence of guided waves due to a lineic perturbation of a 3D periodic medium

DOI10.1016/J.AML.2016.11.017MaRDI QIDQ2407752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bérangère Delourme, P. Joly, Elizaveta Vasilevskaya

Publication date 6 October 2017

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02615

zbMATH Keywords

guided wavesperiodic mediaspectral theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

Abstract: In this note, we exhibit a three dimensional structure that permits to guide waves. This structure is obtained by a geometrical perturbation of a 3D periodic domain that consists of a three dimensional grating of equi-spaced thin pipes oriented along three orthogonal directions. Homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions are imposed on the boundary of the domain. The diameter of the section of the pipes, of order $epsilon$ extgreater{} 0, is supposed to be small. We prove that, for $epsilon$ small enough, shrinking the section of one line of the grating by a factor of $sqrt$ $mu$ (0 extless{} $mu$ extless{} 1) creates guided modes that propagate along the perturbed line. Our result relies on the asymptotic analysis (with respect to $epsilon$) of the spectrum of the Laplace-Neumann operator in this structure. Indeed, as $epsilon$ tends to 0, the domain tends to a periodic graph, and the spectrum of the associated limit operator can be computed explicitly.

Review text

In this paper, the authors are concerned about a three dimensional (3D) structure that allows the existence of guided waves. This structure is a perturbation of a 3D grating of equal spaced parallel pipes (with constant cross section) oriented along the three orthogonal directions, i.e., it is \(a_j\)-periodic with respect to \(x_j, j=1,2,3\). The perturbed structure is still \(a_3\)-periodic with respect to \(x_3\), but has no periodicity with respect to \(x_1\) and \(x_2\). The guided modes satisfy the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions on the domain and propagate along the defect pipe in the \(x_3\) direction.

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