Miroir semi-réfléchissant

Un miroir semi-réfléchissant est un type de miroir dont la particularité est de ne réfléchir qu'une partie de la lumière qu'il reçoit, et de laisser passer l'autre partie (indépendamment de sa couleur, avec la technologie actuelle). En d'autres termes, il sépare un rayon incident en deux flux lumineux, l'un réfléchi, l'autre réfracté (la partie diffusée, de plus faible quantité, étant négligeable, de même que la partie absorbée, transformée en chaleur). Parce que le miroir n'est pas la seule possibilité technique d'obtenir cette particularité optique (un système optique composé de prismes peut atteindre le même but), on appellera la face semi-réfléchissante indifféremment lame séparatrice ou encore séparateur ou diviseur de faisceau (ou de rayon), Paramètres La répartition de l'intensité lumineuse entre ces deux flux dépend :

du système optique choisi ;
de la couleur de la lumière, c'est-à-dire de sa longueur d'onde ;
de l'angle que fait le rayon lumineux avec la s

Numerical modeling of planar periodic structures in electromagnetics

Katarina Blagovic

Periodic structures, such as frequency-selective surfaces (FSSs) and photonic band-gap (PBG) materials, exhibit total reflection in specific frequency bands while total transmission in other bands. They find numerous applications in a large field of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. For example, in the microwave region, they are used to increase the efficiency of reflector antennas. In the far-infrared region they are used in designing polarizers, beam splitters, mirrors for improving the pumping efficiency in molecular lasers, as components of infrared sensors, etc. To set a solid basis for the analysis of periodic structures, we have first studied the most commonly used technique, the integral equation (IE) solved by the method of moments (MoM). IE-MoM is particularly well-suited for the analysis of printed planar structures. In any IE-MoM numerical implementation the efficient evaluation of the corresponding Green's functions (GFs) is of paramount importance. This is especially true for IE analysis of periodic structures whose GFs are slowly converging infinite sums. The systematic study of existing acceleration algorithms of general and specific types, used to accelerate the evaluation of periodic GFs, has been performed. We propose a new and efficient method for acceleration of multilayered periodic GFs that successfully combines the advantages of Shanks' and Ewald's transform. In structures operating at higher frequencies (thin films in millimeter and submillimeter wave bands or with self supporting metallic plates) the thickness of metallic screens must be taken into account. The existing full-wave approaches for simulating these structures double the number of unknowns as compared to that one of the zero-thickness case. Moreover, the thick aperture problem asks for the computation of cavity Green's functions, which is a difficult and time-consuming task for apertures of arbitrary cross-sections. This thesis addresses the problem of scattering by periodic apertures in conducting screens of finite thickness by introducing an approximate and computationally efficient formulation. This formulation consists in treating the thick aperture as an infinitely thin one and in using the correction term in integral equation kernel that accounts for the screen thickness. The number of unknowns remains the same as in the zero-thickness screens and evaluation of complicated cavity Green's functions is obviated, which yields computationally efficient routines.

EPFL2006

First observations of intensity-dependent effects for transversely split beams during multiturn extraction studies at the CERN Proton Synchrotron

Massimo Giovannozzi, Cedric Jean-François Hernalsteens

During the commissioning of the CERN Proton Synchrotron multiturn extraction, tests with different beam intensities were performed in order to probe the behavior of resonance crossing in the presence of possible space charge effects. The initial beam intensity before transverse splitting was varied and the properties of the five beamlets obtained by crossing the fourth-order horizontal resonance were studied. A clear dependence of the beamlets' parameters on the total beam intensity was found, which is the first direct observation of intensity-dependent effects for such a peculiar beam type. The experimental results are presented and discussed in detail in this paper.

American Physical Society2013

Numerical modeling of planar periodic structures in electromagnetics

Katarina Blagovic

EPFL2006

Comparison of polarization splitter devices based on planar photonic crystals

Numerical modeling of planar periodic structures in electromagnetics

First observations of intensity-dependent effects for transversely split beams during multiturn extraction studies at the CERN Proton Synchrotron

Comparison of polarization splitter devices based on planar photonic crystals

Numerical modeling of planar periodic structures in electromagnetics

First observations of intensity-dependent effects for transversely split beams during multiturn extraction studies at the CERN Proton Synchrotron