Ray Optical Scattering From Uniform Reflective Cylindrical Metasurfaces Using Surface Susceptibility Tensors

A ray optical methodology based on the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) is proposed to model electromagnetic (EM) field scattering from curved metasurfaces (MSs). The problem addressed is the illumination of a purely reflective uniform cylindrical MS by a line source, models the surface with susceptibilities and employs a methodology previously used for cylinders coated in thin dielectric layers [Kim and Wang (1989)]. The approach is fundamentally based on a representation of the MS using the generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) which characterizes the surface in terms of susceptibility dyadics. An eigenfunction (EF) description of the MS problem is derived considering both tangential and normal surface susceptibilities, and used to develop a ray optics (RO) description of the scattered fields including the specular geometrical optical field, surface diffraction described by creeping waves and a transition region over the shadow boundary. The specification of the fields in the transition region is dependent on the evaluation of the Pekeris caret function integral and the method follows [Kim and Wang (1989)]. The proposed RO-GSTC model is then successfully demonstrated for a variety of cases and is independently verified using a rigorous EF solution (EF-GSTC) and full-wave Integral Equation method (IE-GSTC), over the entire domain from the deep lit to deep shadow.

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In this paper, a ray optical methodology based on the UTD is proposed to model electromagnetic field scattering from curved metasurfaces. The approach utilizes the generalized sheet transition conditions to characterize the surface in terms of susceptibility dyadics, and a ray optics description is developed for the scattered fields including specular geometrical optical field, surface diffraction, and a transition region over the shadow boundary.