Surface corrugated laminates as elastic grating couplers: Splitting of SV- and P-waves by selective diffraction

The phenomenon of selective diffraction is extended to in-plane elastic waves, and we design surface corrugated periodic laminates that incorporate crystal momentum transfer, which, due to the rich physics embedded within the vector elastic system, results in frequency, angle, and wave-type selective diffraction. The resulting devices are elastic grating couplers, with additional capabilities as compared to analogous scalar electromagnetic couplers, in that the elastic couplers possess the ability to split and independently redirect, through selective negative refraction, the two body waves present in the vector elastic system: P- (compressional) and SV- (shear-vertical) elastic waves. The design paradigm, and interpretation, is aided by obtaining isofrequency contours via a non-dimensionalized transfer matrix method.

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Selective diffraction phenomenon is extended to in-plane elastic waves by designing surface corrugated periodic laminates incorporating crystal momentum transfer. The resulting elastic grating couplers possess additional capabilities to split and independently redirect compressional and shear-vertical elastic waves through selective negative refraction. Obtaining isofrequency contours via a non-dimensionalized transfer matrix method aids in the design paradigm and interpretation.