Electromagnetic Energy Sink

The ideal black body fully absorbs all incident rays, that is, all propagating waves created by arbitrary sources. The known idealized realization of a black body is the perfectly matched layer (PML), widely used in numerical electromagnetics. However, ideal black bodies and PMLs do not interact wit...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2015-06
Main Authors: Valagiannopoulos, Constantinos A, Vehmas, Joni, Simovski, Constantin R, Tretyakov, Sergei A, Maslovski, Stanislav I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorbers
Blackbody
Conjugates
Energy absorption
Perfectly matched layers
Wave propagation
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Summary:The ideal black body fully absorbs all incident rays, that is, all propagating waves created by arbitrary sources. The known idealized realization of a black body is the perfectly matched layer (PML), widely used in numerical electromagnetics. However, ideal black bodies and PMLs do not interact with evanescent fields existing near any finite-size source, and the energy stored in these fields cannot be harvested. Here we introduce the concept of the ideal conjugate matched layer (CML), which fully absorbs energy of both propagating and evanescent fields of sources acting as an ideal sink for electromagnetic energy. Conjugate matched absorbers have exciting application potentials, as resonant attractors of electromagnetic energy into the absorber volume. We derive the conditions on the constitutive parameters of media which can serve as CML materials, numerically study the performance of planar and cylindrical CML and discuss possible realizations of such materials as metal-dielectric composites.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1507.00974