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    Diodelike asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized waves using magnetoelectric coupling and electromagnetic wave tunneling
    (American Physical Society, 2012-05-24) Mutlu, M.; Akosman, A. E.; Serebryannikov, A. E.; Özbay, Ekmel
    An asymmetric, reciprocal, diffraction-free transmission of linearly polarized waves in a new diodelike, three-layer, ultrathin, chiral structure is studied theoretically and experimentally. The exploited physical mechanism is based on the maximization of the cross-polarized transmission in one direction due to the polarization selectivity dictated by the peculiar eigenstate combination, which is efficiently controlled by the electromagnetic tunneling through the metallic subwavelength mesh sandwiched between these layers. Simulation and microwave experiment results demonstrate a nearly total intensity transmission at normal incidence in one direction and a small intensity transmission in the opposite direction.
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    Multichannel optical diode with unidirectional diffraction relevant total transmission
    (Optical Society of American (OSA), 2012) Serebryannikov, A.E.; Cakmak, A.O.; Özbay, Ekmel
    We will show that broadband unidirectional optical transmission with a total transmission maximum inside the band can be obtained for linearly polarized incident waves in the nonsymmetric photonic crystal gratings made of isotropic linear materials at a fixed nonzero or zero angle of incidence. Being based on the merging of diffraction and dispersion effects, the basic physical mechanism studied exploits the transmission channels associated with higher orders, for which asymmetry in the coupling conditions at the two grating interfaces appears when spatial inversion symmetry is broken. Total transmission in one direction and zero transmission in the opposite direction can be obtained due to hybridization of Fabry-Perot type resonances with a diffraction anomaly that yields a diode-like operation regime. Single-beam deflection and two-beam splitting can be obtained, for which transmission can be (nearly) total, if the corrugated side is illuminated. In contrast to the previous studies, it is also shown that unidirectional transmission can appear only at a fixed frequency and only due to diffractions, when total transmission occurs at the noncorrugated-side illumination, being in agreement with the Lorentz Lemma. © 2012 Optical Society of America.