Anisotropic Left-Handed and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>μ</mml:mi></mml:math>-Negative Slab Waveguides: Physics and Device Applications

Salehi, Hamidreza; Chaudhuri, Sujeet K.; Mansour, Raafat R.

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 046861 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/46861

Anisotropic Left-Handed and μ-Negative Slab Waveguides: Physics and Device Applications

Hamidreza Salehi,¹Sujeet K. Chaudhuri,¹and Raafat R. Mansour¹

Academic Editor: Stefan A. Maier

Received25 Apr 2007

Revised27 Jun 2007

Accepted01 Oct 2007

Published17 Dec 2007

Abstract

We study the properties of various anisotropic left-handed slab waveguides. The analysis is extended to anisotropic μ-negative slab waveguides. The possible existence of the plasmon modes in various anisotropic slab waveguide configurations is discussed. An FDTD program is developed to investigate the potential device applications of these anisotropic structures. A new signal detector and a two-channel harmonic separator multiplexer are designed employing the μ-negative slab waveguide.

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Copyright © 2007 Hamidreza Salehi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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