Attenuation in a Cylindrical Left Handed Material (LHM) Wave-Guide Structure英文文献资料.docVIP

Optics and Photonics Journal, 2012, 2, 46-53 /10.4236/opj.2012.21007 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/opj) Attenuation in a Cylindrical Left Handed Material (LHM) Wave-Guide Structure Hana Mohammed Mousa Physics Department, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine Email: H.mousa@.ps Received January 7, 2012; revised February 8, 2012; accepted February 17, 2012 ABSTRACT This paper tackles the wave attenuation along with a cylindrical waveguides composed of a left Handed material (LHM), surrounded by a superconducting or metal wall. I used the transcendental equations for both TE and TM waves. I found out that the waveguide supports backward TE and backward TM waves since both permittivity and magnetic perme- ability of LHM are negative. I also illustrated the dependence of the TE and TM wave attenuation on the wave fre- quency and the reduced temperature of the superconducting wall (T Tc ). Attenuation constant increases by increasing the wave frequency and it shows higher values at higher T Tc . Lowest wave attenuation and the best confinement are achieved for the thickest TE waveguide. LHM-superconductor waveguide shows lower wave attenuation than LHM- metal waveguide. Keywords: Left Handed Material; TM Waves; TE Waves; Attenuation Constant; Waveguides; Superconductor; Metal 1. Introduction handed substrate. The backward and bi-stability behav- iors have been noticed clearly. Huang, et al. [16] con- sidered the wave propagation along with a cylindrical nanowire waveguide made of indefinite index meta-ma- terials. They found out that the backward-wave modes can have very large effective index. These nanowires can be used as an ultra-compact optical buffer in integrated optical circuits. Yeap, et al. have discussed and deve- loped a novel technique to compute the attenuation of waves propagating in circular waveguides with lossy and superconducting walls [17]. They