Diffraction by a symmetric material junction simulated with generalized sheet transition conditions

When diffraction by a material discontinuity in a thick dielectric/ferrite slab is treated by the dual integral equation approach (a variation of the Weiner-Hopf method), the resulting solution displays unknown constants, characteristic of the incompleteness associated with the generalized transition conditions employed in modeling a thick slab. The constants can be shown to depend on the geometry and properties of the discontinuity. Their explicit determination by enforcing field continuity across the slab junction is treated. The field internal to the slab is determined by first expressing the field as an expansion of discrete and continuous eigenmodes valid in the exterior and interior slab region. The expansion or mode coefficients are then identified by recasting the Weiner-Hopf solution in a suitable form, enabling the solution constants to be numerically computer by matching the field expansions to the left and right of the slab discontinuity at a discrete set of points.<
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