Temporal rainbow scattering at boundary-induced time interfaces

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Temporal rainbow scattering at boundary-induced time interfaces
المؤلفون: L. Stefanini, D. Ramaccia, A. Toscano, F. Bilotti
المساهمون: Stefanini, L., Ramaccia, D., Toscano, A., Bilotti, F.
سنة النشر: 2023
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), FOS: Physical sciences, Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)
الوصف: Since the dawn of modern optics and electromagnetics, optical prism is one of the most fascinating optical elements for refracting light. Exploiting its frequency dispersive behaviour, a prism is able to refract different frequencies in different directions, realizing polychromatic light rainbows. Recently, thanks to their engineerable electromagnetic response, metamaterials have been exploited for achieving novel refractive scattering processes, going beyond the classical prism effects. In this Manuscript, we report on a novel rainbow-like scattering process taking place at the interface of a boundary-induced temporal metamaterial realized by instantaneously opening the boundary conditions of a parallel plate waveguide. Changing abruptly the conductivity of one of the two metallic plates, we demonstrate that an equivalent temporal interface between two different media is realized, and the monochromatic wave propagating into the waveguide gets scattered into a polychromatic rainbow in free-space. We derive the relationships between the waveguide mode and the raising rainbow in terms of scattered amplitude and frequencies as a function of the elevation angle with respect to the waveguide axis. We apply the underlying physics to control the temporal rainbow by imposing a principal direction of scattering by design. Full-wave numerical simulations are performed for computing the rainbow temporal scattering and verifying the design guidelines for achieving controlled temporal rainbow scattering.
Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Appendix
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1fa8a9521e8bbc6c22d172f2b9ffd66f
https://hdl.handle.net/11590/435330
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....1fa8a9521e8bbc6c22d172f2b9ffd66f
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE