[HTML][HTML] Metastructures: From physics to application

F Capolino, M Khajavikhan, A Alù - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The exotic wave phenomena in metastructures and their wide applications are one of the
most researched subjects in electromagnetic waves and photonics, from radio frequencies …

How to achieve exceptional points in coupled resonators using a gyrator or PT-symmetry, and in a time-modulated single resonator: high sensitivity to perturbations

A Nikzamir, K Rouhi, A Figotin… - EPJ Applied …, 2022 - epjam.epj.org
We study the rise of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) in various distinct circuit
configurations such as gyrator-based coupled resonators, coupled resonators with PT …

Exceptional point in a degenerate system made of a gyrator and two unstable resonators

K Rouhi, A Nikzamir, A Figotin, F Capolino - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate that a circuit comprising two unstable LC resonators coupled via a gyrator
supports an exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) with purely real eigenfrequency. Each of …

Time modulation to manage and increase the power harvested from external vibrations

A Nikzamir, K Rouhi, A Figotin, F Capolino - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate how a single resonator with a time-modulated component extracts power
from an external ambient source. The collected power is largely dependent on the precise …

Parametric modeling of serpentine waveguide traveling wave tubes

K Rouhi, R Marosi, T Mealy, A Figotin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple and fast model for numerically calculating small-signal gain in serpentine
waveguide traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) is described. In the framework of the Pierce model …

Investigating exceptional points in dark-bright mode-coupled plasmonic systems

Y Pei, W Huang, N Zhang, M Wang, Y Zhou, K Li… - Optics express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Exceptional points (EPs) of non-Hermitian systems are gaining more and more attention due
to their important applications in unidirectional transmitters, sensors, etc. However …

Traveling wave tube eigenmode solution for beam-loaded slow wave structure based on particle-in-cell simulations

T Mealy, F Capolino - IEEE transactions on plasma science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scheme to characterize and model the dynamics of the electron beam–electromagnetic
power exchange along a traveling-wave tube (TWT) is proposed. The method is based on …

Small-Signal Model for Inhomogeneous Helix Traveling-Wave Tubes using Transfer Matrices

R Marosi, K Rouhi, T Mealy, A Figotin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce a practical method for modeling the small-signal behavior of dispersive and
inhomogeneous helix-type traveling-wave tube (TWT) amplifiers based on a generalization …

An Effective Method to Extract Properties of Slow-Wave Structures for TWT Applications

C Zhao, W Liu, L Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An effective numerical method for accurate extraction of the properties of slow-wave
structures (SWSs) with the full-wave simulator is proposed in this article. With the short-open …

Reduced plasma frequency calculation based on particle-in-cell simulations

T Mealy, R Marosi, F Capolino - IEEE Transactions on Plasma …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a scheme to calculate the reduced plasma frequency of a cylindrical-shaped
electron beam flowing inside of a cylindrical tunnel, based on results obtained from particle …