University of Texas at Austin

Past Event: Oden Institute Seminar

lectric and Magnetic Fields inside Optical Meta materials: Non-coercive bilinear forms and the existence of backward waves using the Neumann Poincare Spectrum

Robert Lipton, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University

3:30 – 5PM
Thursday Sep 14, 2017

POB 6.304

Abstract

We examine electric and magnetic fields inside meta materials made from sub wavelength high contrast media. We consider wave propagation inside meta material crystals. The spectrum and associated eigenspaces of Neumann Poincare operators are used to represent the linear operator for the non-coercive bilinear form associated with wave propagation inside meta materials. This is used to recover an analytic representation formula for fields inside optical meta materials. We the apply the theory to construct backward wave solutions of Maxwell?s equations inside sub wavelength high contrast media.

Event information

Date
3:30 – 5PM
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Location POB 6.304
Hosted by Ivo Babuška