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Pioneering 21st Century

Electromagnetics and Photonics

Module 1
Introduction

Course Website:
http://emlab.utep.edu/scSVL.htm
EM Lab Website:
http://emlab.utep.edu/

Short Course Outline

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Module 1 Introduction
What is a spatially-variant lattice?
Why is it good?

Module 2 Spatially-Variant Planar Gratings

Module 3 Spatially-Variant Lattices
Module 4 MATLAB to CAD

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Spatially-Variant
Lattices

Metamaterials and Photonic

Crystals
Metamaterials

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Photonic Crystals

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Electromagnetic fields and waves cannot be controlled

using homogeneous materials.
There must exist some kind of inhomogeneity.
If we use metamaterials, metasurfaces, and photonic
crystals as artificial materials, why are so many lattices
macroscopically homogeneous?
Because it is not well known how to make them
inhomogeneous without destroying their properties.
Imagine what we are missing!

Spatially Variant Lattices:

Uniform lattice

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Raymond C. Rumpf "Engineering the Dispersion and Anisotropy of Periodic

Electromagnetic Structures," to be published in Solid State Physics, Vol. 66, 2015.
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Spatially Variant Lattices:

Spatial variance with too much deformation

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Raymond C. Rumpf "Engineering the Dispersion and Anisotropy of Periodic

Electromagnetic Structures," to be published in Solid State Physics, Vol. 66, 2015.
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Spatially Variant Lattices:

Spatial variance with minimal deformations

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Raymond C. Rumpf "Engineering the Dispersion and Anisotropy of Periodic

Electromagnetic Structures," to be published in Solid State Physics, Vol. 66, 2015.
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Achievements
Using SpatiallyVariant Structures

Polarization Control Using SpatiallyVariant Form Birefringence

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A. Mehta, J. D. Brown, P. Srinivasan, R. C. Rumpf, E. G. Johnson, Spatially polarizing autocloned elements, Opt. Lett. 32, 1935
1937 (2007) .
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Compensation for Surface

Curvature

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R. C. Rumpf, M. Gates, C. L. Kozikowski, W. A. Davis, "Guided-Mode Resonance Filter

Compensated to Operate on a Curved Surface," PIER C, Vol. 40, pp. 93-103, 2013.
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Spatially-Variant SelfCollimation

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unit cell orientation (degrees)

Manufactured by 3D printing
Operated at 15 GHz

~20 dB

R. C. Rumpf, J. Pazos, C. R. Garcia, L. Ochoa, and R. Wicker, "3D Printed Lattices with Spatially
Variant Self-Collimation," PIER, Vol. 139, pp. 1-14, 2013.
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Worlds Tightest Optical Bend

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30 m

Worlds tightest unguided

bend (R = 6.70).
Utilized very low refractive
index (SU-8, n 1.59).
Operated at 0 = 2.94 m.

J. L. Digaum, J. J. Pazos, J. Chiles, J. D'Archangel, G. Padilla, A. Tatulian, R. C. Rumpf, S.

Fathpour, G. D. Boreman, and S. M. Kuebler, "Tight Control of Light Beams in Photonic Crystals with
Spatially-Variant Lattice Orientation," Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 21, pp. 25788-25804, 2014.
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Zero Mode Coupling in MM

Waveguides with Sharp Bends
First-Order Mode

Second-Order Mode

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Third-Order Mode

R. C. Rumpf, et al, Spatially-variant periodic structures in electromagnetics, accepted for publication in Phil. Trans. A, Dec. 2014.
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Applications of SVPCs in
Integrated Optics

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Sharp
Waveguide
Bends

Printed
CircuitBoard
Optoelectronic
BGAPackagewith
VCSELArray
Underneath

OpticalBus

SVPCJumper

Ordinary
Waveguide

VCSEL

SVPCFunnel+Bend
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Microstrip Made Immune to

Metal Object in Close Proximity Short Course
Patent Pending

R. C. Rumpf, C. R. Garcia, H. H. Tsang, J. E. Padilla, M. D. Irwin, "Electromagnetic Isolation of a Microstrip

by Embedding in a Spatially Variant Anisotropic Metamaterial," PIER, Vol. 142, pp. 243-260, 2013.
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Two Antennas Decoupled in

3D Printed Mobile Phone

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Patent Pending
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Arrays on Curved Surfaces

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top view

perspective view

Periodic structures can be placed

onto curved surfaces without
deforming the elements or their
spacing.
R. C. Rumpf, et al, Spatially-variant periodic structures in electromagnetics, accepted for publication in Phil. Trans. A, Dec. 2014.
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Combining Spatial Transforms

with Synthesis Tool (1 of 2)

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Step 1 of 4:
Define Spatial Transform

R. C. Rumpf, et al, Spatially-variant periodic structures in electromagnetics, accepted for publication in Phil. Trans. A, Dec. 2014.
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