Experimental and Numerical Identification of the Defect Modes in 2D Wire Photonic Crystal

The manuscript is devoted to experimental and numerical calculation analysis of the spectral properties of an anisotropic wire medium (wire photonic crystal) with embedded spatial defect in microwaves. The spatial distribution of the electromagnetic field in the defect region is experimentally detected. A good agreement between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements is shown. The obtained experimental results can be applied for various areas in Communications: directional couplers, high pass filters, attenuators, etc.