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hv photonics Article Rectifying Nonreciprocal Perfect Absorber Based on Generalized Effective-Medium Theory for Composite Magnetic Metamaterials 1 1 1 1 1 1,2 1,3 Yiyun Chen , Yaping Zhang , Lingzhong Zhao , Guangfeng Wen , Lin Zhang , Qingtao Ba , Qilin Luo , 1 1, Jingjing Yu and Shiyang Liu * Key Laboratory of Optical Information Detecting and Display Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China Department of Physics and Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China Xiangsihu College, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530225, China * Correspondence: syliu@zjnu.cn Abstract: In this work, we demonstrate the implementation of a nonreciprocal perfect absorber (NPA) made of composite magnetic metamaterials (MMs) consisting of an array of dielectric core loaded (DCL) ferrite rods with either hollow or dielectric cores. The NPA can be functionalized as a PA for the incident beam at a specified direction, while at the symmetric direction the absorption is very weak so that a strong reflection is observed due to the excitation of nonreciprocal magnetic surface plasmon. Interestingly, it is shown that the material loss might be beneficial to the absorption, but it will result in the degradation of nonreciprocal performance. For the delicately designed MMs, only a very small material loss is necessary and simultaneously ensures the high nonreciprocal performance of NPA. To interpret the high quality of NPA, we developed a generalized effective-medium theory for the composite MMs, which shows the direct consequence of the DCL ferrite rods with optimized core size and core permittivity. The partial wave analysis indicates that the nonreciprocal dipole resonance Citation: Chen, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Zhao, L.; Wen, G.; Zhang, L.; Ba, Q.; Luo, Q; in DCL ferrite rod plays a crucial role in improving the nonreciprocity. The narrow band feature and Yu J.; Liu, S. Rectifying Nonreciprocal the angular sensitivity make the NPA promising for the diode-like functionalities. In addition, by Perfect Absorber Based on controlling the magnitude and orientation of bias magnetic field both the operating frequency and Generalized Effective-Medium the nonreciprocity can be flexibly controlled, adding an additional degree of freedom. The concept Theory for Composite Magnetic proposed in this research is promising for microwave photonics and integrated photonics. Metamaterials. Photonics 2022, 9, 699. https://doi.org/10.3390/ Keywords: nonreciprocal perfect absorber; magnetic metamaterials; magnetic surface plasmon; photonics9100699 time-reversal symmetry breaking; effective-medium theory; multiple scattering theory Received: 31 August 2022 Accepted: 23 September 2022 Published: 27 September 2022 1. Introduction Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in Material loss is an inevitable issue in designing metamaterials or metasurfaces, which published maps and institutional affil- is usually detrimental to the performance of most functionalities, limiting severely the iations. potential applications. Nonetheless, material loss is indispensable and plays a positive role in designing the absorber as is certain. Traditional absorbers are usually made of materials with either large dielectric loss or large magnetic loss and in form of pyramidal absorber, tapered absorber, or laminated absorber [1–5], which apparently suffer from Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. bulky geometry, frequency limitation, and lack of appropriate materials. The advancement Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. of nanotechnology enables the fabrication of nanomaterials with unique structures, which This article is an open access article exhibits particular absorption features such as the broadband and nearly omnidirectional distributed under the terms and absorber by the biomimetic silicon nanostructures [6], a low index super black absorber conditions of the Creative Commons by the vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays [7], an impedance-graded absorber by Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// layered aluminum [8], and other chemical synthesis namomaterial absorbers achieved creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ by amplified interface effects [9–12]. Nonetheless, the absorbing characteristics of these 4.0/). Photonics 2022, 9, 699. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9100699 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics Photonics 2022, 9, 699 2 of 19 nanomaterials mainly depends on the material property in itself, thus limiting the flexibility in practical applications. The advent of metamaterials and metasurfaces provides a new concept in design- ing electromagnetic media, which, in principle, can create arbitrary electric and mag- netic response. Initiated by the pioneering work from Padilla and coworkers [13,14], a variety of metamaterial or metasurface based perfect absorbers (PAs) come into ap- pearance, including the dual-band absorbers [15–18], the multi-band absorbers [19–22], and the broadband absorbers [23–26]; the polarization-dependent absorbers [27–30] and the polarization-independent absorbers [31–34]; the wide angle [35–38] and even omnidirec- tional absorbers [25,31,39,40]. Due to the sufficient properties of these sub-wavelength struc- tured absorbers, many potential and promising applications have been demonstrated such as photovoltaics [41–43], photodetectors [44–46], photocatalysis [47–49], bolometers [50–52], biosensors [53–55], imaging sensors [56–58], thermal emitters [59–61], and spatial light modulators [62–64]. In addition, the PAs have also been implemented in the optical systems with extraordinary physical properties, for instance, the coherent perfect absorption, a time- reversal counterpart of laser emission process [65], can be achieved in metamaterial based systems [66,67]. By engineering parity-time symmetry phase in metamaterials, the PAs can be achieved, showing significant contribution to the non-Hermitian photonics [68–70]. Zero-index materials, especially, epsilon-near-zero materials can be served as a candidate to construct PAs due to the enhancement of light-matter interaction [71–74]. Interestingly, based on the gradient index system, termed photonic “black hole” [75,76], the omnidi- rectional PAs are shown to effectively trap light by mimicking celestial mechanics [77,78]. For the metasurfaces made up of high-Q resonator arrays, quasibound states in the con- tinuum emerge and result in the realization of narrow-band PAs, triggering potential applications in photodetection and sensing [79–81]. By introducing nonlinear dielectric inclusions, the nonlinear PAs can be constructed with intensity-dependent absorption fea- tures, extending the possible applications to nonlinear optics [82–84]. Besides, the concept of metamaterial or metasurface based PAs is also applicable for acoustic waves so that the airborne and underwater acoustic PAs are theoretically proposed and experimentally realized [85–88]. To gain more degrees of freedom, the PAs with properties controllable by external stimuli are preferred by incorporating active materials into the design of metamaterials or metasurfaces. It has been shown that several choices can meet the requirement in dynamically modulating the electromagnetic performance, including the liquid crystal based metamaterial PAs electronically tuned by a bias voltage [89–91], the 2D materials, especially, graphene, used as either patterned or unpatterned film in metamaterials or metasurfaces, showing the tunable properties by controlling Fermi level via a bias volt- age [18,37,92], and the phase-change materials such as Ge Sb Te and VO , possessing, re- 2 2 5 2 spectively, amorphous to crystalline and insulating to metallic phase transition, determined by thermal process, exhibiting reconfigurable properties for the associated metamaterials or metasurfaces [32,63,93–96]. Besides, by combining micro-electromechanical systems with PAs the mechanically tunable functionalities can be achieved with the operating frequency flexibly controlled by precisely adjusting the configurations [97–99]. Ferrite materials, as an important stuff in microwave engineering, can be served as another candidate to implement tunable electromagnetic functionalities due to the dependence of magnetic permeability on a bias magnetic field (BMF). By constructing magnetic metamaterials (MMs) with an array of ferrite rods, the corresponding effective refractive index can be tuned from negative to zero and to positive with a BMF [100–102]. In addition, due to the introduction of BMF the time-reversal symmetry is broken, giving rise to nonreciprocal features of MMs, such as nonreciprocal scattering [103,104], nonreciprocal waveguiding [105–107], and non- reciprocal edge modes [108–110]. In addition, magnetic surface plasmon (MSP) can be excited in MMs due to the intrinsic magnetic response of ferrite materials [111], which is a magnetic counterpart of electric surface plasmon in metallic materials. Differently, the MSP resonance can be flexibly tuned in that the operating frequency and the nonreciprocity can Photonics 2022, 9, 699 3 of 19 be controlled, respectively, by the magnitude and direction of a BMF. In this work, we find that the loss in MMs can induce nonreciprocal absorption or reflection, while strong loss will degrade the nonreciprocal effect. Our motivation is to find the optimal material loss and enhance the nonreciprocity of MMs, namely, for the electromagnetic beam incident from one direction the field is completely absorbed, corresponding to the PA, while the elec- tromagnetic beam is nearly totally reflected when it strikes the MMs at a mirror-symmetric direction. To achieve this purpose, the composite MMs made up of an array of delicately optimized dielectric core loaded (DCL) ferrite rods are constructed, instead of the MMs consisting of pure ferrite rods. Based on the retrieved effective constitutive parameters from the generalized effective-medium theory and the partial wave maps simulated by the multiple scattering theory, the phenomenon can be perfectly interpreted. In addition, the introduction of DCL ferrite rods can induce another resonating mode residing in the interior region associated with the angular momentum channel n = 1, substantially dif- ferent from the n = +1 mode emerging in the exterior region. As a result, the nonreciprocal dipole modes are constituted, which can remarkably improve the quality of nonreciprocity. 2. Effective-Medium Theory Ferrite materials, typically, yttrium iron garnets (YIGs) are widely used in microwave engineering, which have different electromagnetic parameters dependent on the material elements, the concentrations, and the crystal type as single-crystalline or poly-crystalline phase. The electric permittivity of YIG is usually very large and it does not change too much for the YIG ferrite materials with different elements and concentrations. In addition, the permittivity is not a critical parameter that determines the nonreciprocal perfect ab- sorbing effect. Therefore, we take # = 15 + i3 10 as a constant for the convenience of theoretical exploration although it is not a rigorous treatment. The damping factor a, associated with the linewidth of gyromagnetic resonance, varies in a wide range, which is beneficial to the loss optimization. Under fully magnetization by a BMF along z axis, the magnetic permeability is a second-order tensor in gyrotropic form [112] 0 1 0 1 0 0 m im 0 m im 0 r k r k 0 0 @ A @ A mb = m im m 0 , m mb = im m 0 (1) s k r s k r 0 0 1 0 0 1 with w w iaw m w w m ( ) m 0 r m k 0 0 m = 1 + , m = , m = , m = , r k r k 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 m m m m (w iaw) w (w iaw) w r k r k 0 0 where w is the circular frequency of the incident electromagnetic wave, a is the damping factor, w = 2p f = 2pgH is the ferromagnetic resonance frequency with H the BMF 0 0 0 0 and g = 2.8 MHz/Oe the gyromagnetic ratio, w = 2p f = 2pgM is the characteristic m m s frequency with M is the saturation magnetization, set M = 1750 G for the convenience of s s analysis. In two dimensional system, only the transverse magnetic (TM) electromagnetic waves with the electric field component polarized along z direction interact with magnetic moment. To illustrate this, the geometry of a ferrite rod positioned in air background illuminated by an electromagnetic wave of TM polarization is shown in Figure 1a, where both electric field and BMF are along z axis. The ferrite rod has the radius r and the dielectric core has the radius r and the permittivity # , the permeability m = 1 or, even c c c simpler, # = m = 1 for hollow ferrite rod. The composite MM is constructed by an array c c of DCL ferrite rods arranged periodically in the air as schematically shown in Figure 1b, where a square lattice with the lattice separation a is considered. Photonics 2022, 9, 699 4 of 19 Figure 1. The schematic diagram illustrating the geometry of a DCL ferrite rod in air background under the illumination of an electromagnetic wave with TM polarization (a), the composite MM made up of an array of DCL ferrite rods arranged periodically as a square lattice in the air (b), as well as the transformation of a unit cell in panel (b) into a TL hybrid rod (c) in effective-medium theory. The concept of effective-medium theory (EMT) is based on the coherent potential approximation, which has been applied to retrieve the effective constitutive parameters for the dielectric metamaterials [113] and MMs made of pure ferrite rods [114]. To generalize the EMT to the composite MMs concerned in present work, it is supposed that the composite MMs possess the effective electric permittivity # and effective magnetic permeability m . e f f e f f Then, as schematically shown in Figure 1c, the unit cell is transformed into an equal-area three-layer (TL) hybrid rod with the inner part the DCL ferrite rod and the outmost layer the background medium, namely, the air in present case. Immersed this TL hybrid rod into the effective medium, the scattering cross section should be zero, which is the criterion to establish the necessary formulae so that the effective constitutive parameters can be acquired. Based on the Mie theory, the scattering properties of a TL hybrid rod can be solved exactly, which involves the expansion of electromagnetic wave in four regions I, II, III, IV into vector cylindrical wave functions (VCWFs) at first step. As a result, the electromagnetic field in region I, corresponding to the dielectric core, can be written as (1) E = E q N (k , r), (2a) 1 å n n c (1) H = E q M (k , r), (2b) n c 1 å n n iwm m 0 c n 1 where the coefficient E = i jE j with jE j the amplitude of electromagnetic waves, q n 0 0 are the corresponding expansion coefficients, and the wave number in region I is k = k # m with k the wave number in vacuum. Then, in region II, corresponding to the 0 c c 0 ferrite material, the electromagnetic waves are expanded into VCWFs as h i (1) (3) 2 0 2 0 E = E q N k , r b N k , r , (3a) 2 n n n å n s n s h i (1) (1) s 2 0 0 0 0 H = E q m M k , r + im L k , r (3b) 2 å n n n n r s k s iwm h i (3) (3) 2 0 0 0 0 b m M k , r + im L k , r , n n n r s k s Photonics 2022, 9, 699 5 of 19 2 2 where q and b are the corresponding expansion coefficients, the effective wave number n n p p p # m s s # 0 0 s p p in region II is k = k . In usual case, m = m such that k = k . Similarly, in p s s 0 0 s 0 0 0 m m m 0 r r region III the electromagnetic wave can be expanded as h i (1) (3) 3 3 E = E q N (k , r) b N (k , r) , (4a) 3 å n n 0 n n 0 h i (1) (3) 0 3 3 H = E q M (k , r) b M (k , r) , (4b) 3 n n 0 n 0 å n n iwm 3 3 where q and b are the corresponding expansion coefficients. Finally, for the effective- n n medium background in region IV, it is actually a new ferrite materials with the elec- tromagnetic properties dependent on the configuration of composite MMs. As a re- 0 0 0 sult, the electromagnetic wave can be easily expanded by replacing k , m , and m in s r k 0 0 Equation (3) with the effective parameters k , m , and m , which are to be obtained in the re ke following part. h i (1) (3) 4 4 E = E q N (k , r) b N (k , r) , (5a) 4 å n n e n e n n h i e (1) (1) 4 0 0 H = E q m M (k , r) + im L (k , r) (5b) 4 å n n e n e n re ke iwm h i (3) (3) 4 0 0 b m M (k , r) + im L (k , r) , n e n e n re ke e f f where the effective wave number in the homogenized composite MMs is k = k , or, e 0 re p p (J) (J) (J) in a more convenient form k = k # m . The VCWFs L , M , and N used in e 0 e f f e f f n n n the above formulae are defined as " # (J) dz (x) in (J) (J) n inf L (k, r) = e + z (x)e e , (6a) n r n f dx x " # (J) in dz (x) (J) (J) n inf M (k, r) = z (x)e e e , (6b) n n r f x dx (J) (J) inf N (k, r) = z (x)e e , (6c) n n (J) where x = kr, the superscript J = 1 and J = 3 in z (x) correspond to the Bessel function (1) J (x) and the first kind Hankel function H (x), respectively. n n By matching boundary conditions at three interfaces r = r , r = r , and r = r c s E e j = E e j , H e j = H e j , (7a) r r r r 1 2 1 2 r r r r c c c c E e = E e , H e = H e , (7b) j j j j 2 r 3 r 2 r 3 r r r r r s s s s E e j = E e j , H e j = H e j , (7c) r r r r 3 4 3 4 r r r r 0 0 0 0 Photonics 2022, 9, 699 6 of 19 we can obtain the corresponding linear equations as follows (1) 1 2 0 2 0 q J (k r ) = q J k r b H k r , (8a) n n c c n n s c n n s c h i k k 1 0 s 2 0 2 0 e e q J (k r ) = q J k r b H k r , (8b) c c n c n c n n n s n s iwm m iwm 0 c 0 (1) (1) 2 0 2 0 3 3 q J k r b H k r = q J (k r ) b H (k r ), (8c) n s n s n 0 s n 0 s n s n s n n h i h i k k (1) 0 (1) s 2 0 2 0 3 0 3 e e q J k r b H k r = q J (k r ) b H (k r ) , (8d) n s n s 0 s n 0 s n s n s n n n iwm iwm 0 0 (1) (1) 3 3 4 4 q J (k r ) b H (k r ) = q J (k r ) b H (k r ), (8e) n 0 0 n 0 0 n e 0 n e 0 n n n n h i h i k k 0 (1) e 3 0 3 4 4 q J (k r ) b H (k r ) = q J (k r ) b H (k r ) , (8f) e n e n n 0 0 n n 0 0 n n 0 n 0 iwm iwm 0 0 where the functions J x , J x are associated with the Bessel function and the functions ( ) ( ) H (x), H (x) are associated with the Hankel function of the first kind, which are defined as n n 0 0 nm nm k ke 0 0 0 0 J (x) = m J (x) + J (x), J (x) = m J (x) + J (x), (9a) n n n r n n re n x x 0 0 0 0 nm nm (1) (1) (1) (1) 0 k ke H (x) = m H (x) + H (x), H (x) = m H (x) + H (x). (9b) n n n n n n r re x x By solving the first four linear equations, namely, Equation (8a–d), the Mie coefficients for the DCL ferrite rod in the background of composite MMs in Figure 1 can be obtained. 3 0 0 0 0 b k J (k r )X(k r ) k J (k r )X(k r ) 0 0 s s n 0 s s n n s s s T = = , (10) (1) (1) 0 0 0 q e k H (k r )X(k r ) k H (k r )X(k r ) 0 n 0 s s n 0 s s s s s 0 0 where the functions X(k r ) and X(k r ) are the formulae in connection to the scattering s s s s properties at the innermost interface r = r and they are defined as (1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 e e e X(k r ) = J k r R H k r , X(k r ) = J k r R H k r , (11) s n s n s s n s n n s s s n s s s s in which the scattering term R is defined as 2 0 0 0 b J (k r )J (k r ) kJ (k r )J (k r ) n c n c c n c c c n s s n R = = , (12) 2 (1) q 0 e 0 0 H (k r )J (k r ) kH (k r )J (k r ) n c n c c c c c s n s n e c with the normalized dimensionless wave number k = . k m With the Mie coefficients of the DCL ferrite rod at hand, we can further consider the scattering properties of TL hybrid rod immersed in the effective medium. Note in passing that the scattering cross section tends to be zero as required by the effective-medium theory, which can substantially simplify the problem. Provided that the Mie coefficients of the TL hybrid rod isS , the scattering cross section of the TL hybrid rod can be acquired according to the Mie theory [113]. 4 4 b C = jS j = = 0. (13) sca å n å k k q e e n n n As a consequence, the expansion coefficients in region IV should be vanished, namely, b = 0. With the aid of this judgement and combined with the obtained Mie coefficients T of the DCL ferrite rod in Equation (10), the master equation of effective-medium theory Photonics 2022, 9, 699 7 of 19 can be obtained by solving boundary equations, namely, Equations (8e) and (8f), which is written as 0 0 0 0 nm J (x )J (x ) + x m J (x )J (x ) x J (x )J (x ) n 0 n e e n 0 e 0 0 n e ke re n n T = , (14) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 0 nm H (x )J (x ) + x m H (x )J (x ) x H (x )J (x ) n 0 n e e n 0 e 0 n 0 n e ke re n where the size parameters x = k r and x = k r . In the long wavelength limit, only the 0 0 0 e e 0 lower order terms contribute to the scattering cross section so that the angular momentum channels n = 0,1 are taken into account in effective-medium theory, giving rise to the following three equations 0 0 0 x m J (x )J (x ) x J (x )J (x ) e e e re 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 T = , (15a) (1) (1) x m H (x )J (x ) x H (x )J (x ) e 0 e 0 0 0 e re 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 m J (x )J (x ) + x m J (x )J (x ) x J (x )J (x ) e e e e ke 1 0 1 re 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 T = , (15b) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 0 m H (x )J (x ) + x m H (x )J (x ) x H (x )J (x ) 0 1 e e 0 e 0 0 1 e ke re 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 x m J (x )J (x ) m J (x )J (x ) x J (x )J (x ) e 0 e 0 e 0 0 e re 1 ke 1 1 1 1 1 T = . (15c) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 0 x m H (x )J (x ) m H (x )J (x ) x H (x )J (x ) e 0 e 0 1 e 0 0 1 e re ke 1 1 1 1 In the effective-medium theory, the unit cell is transformed into an equal-area TL hybrid rod with the radius r = a/ p for the square lattice shown in Figure 1b. As a matter of fact, the long wavelength requirement of effective-medium theory indicates that k r 1 to guarantee the homogenization of the composite MMs. Therefore, Equations (15a)– (1) (15c) can be evidently simplified by making approximations on J (x), J (x), H (x), n n (1) and H (x), concretely, J (x) ' 1, J (x) ' , (16a) 0 1 0 0 1 J (x) ' , J (x) ' , (16b) 0 1 2 2i (1) (1) x 2i H (x) ' 1 + ln x, H (x) ' , (16c) 0 1 2 px 0 0 x 2i (1) (1) 1 2i H (x) ' + , H (x) ' + . (16d) 0 1 2 px 2 px Substituting these terms into Equations (15a)–(15c), the master equations can be transformed into the solvable linear equations 2 0 0 x m J (x ) + 2x J (x ) 0 0 0 0 e re T = , (17a) (1) (1) 2 0 x m H (x ) + 2x H (x ) e re 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 m J (x ) + m J (x ) x J (x ) 1 0 1 0 0 0 ke re T = , (17b) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 m H (x ) + m H (x ) x H (x ) ke 0 re 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 m J (x ) m J (x ) x J (x ) 1 0 1 0 0 0 re ke T = . (17c) (1) (1) (1) 0 0 m H (x ) m H (x ) x H (x ) 0 0 0 0 re ke 1 1 1 Photonics 2022, 9, 699 8 of 19 After some simple mathematical manipulations, we finally obtain the effective consti- 0 0 tutive parameters, namely, # , m , and m e f f re ke (1) J (x ) T H (x ) 0 0 0 # = , (18a) e f f (1) T H (x ) J (x ) 0 0 0 0 x 2T T P (T +T )(P + P ) + 2P 0 +1 1 1 +1 1 2 3 4 h ih i m = , (18b) re (1) (1) T H (x ) J (x ) T H (x ) J (x ) 1 0 1 0 +1 0 1 0 1 1 x (T T )(P P ) 0 +1 1 3 2 h ih i m = , (18c) ke (1) (1) J (x ) T H (x ) J (x ) T H (x ) 1 0 +1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 with 0 0 (1) (1) (1) P = H x H x , P = H x J x , ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 (1) P = H (x )J (x ), P = J (x )J (x ). 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 Then, from the magnetic permeability in Equation (1) the corresponding effective 0 0 elements m and m can be obtained from m and m . It is noted that for the convenience re ke re ke of analysis the isotropic magnetic permeability is defined according to its gyromagnetic form [112] 2 2 m m 1 re ke m = = . (19) e f f m m re re Besides the retrieval of effective constitutive parameters, the effective-medium theory can also be used to design the composite resonating building blocks with exotic properties, facilitating the design of metamaterials and metasurfaces. 3. Nonreciprocal Perfect Absorption by Composite MMs To begin with, we construct the MMs with an array of ferrite rods arranged periodically in the air as a square lattice with lattice separation a = 9 mm, where both pure ferrite rod (type I) and the hollow ferrite rod (type II) are considered for the convenience of comparison. The 5-layer MM slabs with each layer 201 ferrite rods are concerned, where the middle ferrite rod at the top layer is fixed at the origin and the surface normal is along the y axis. The Gaussian beam of TM polarization is incident downward from either left hand side or right hand side with the beam focus positioned at the origin. To examine the nonreciprocal properties of electromagnetic waves scattered at the interface of MM slabs, the reflectance (R), transmittance (T ), and absorptance (A) are calculated with the variation of incident angle q and damping factor a based on the multiple scattering theory [115,116]. With the inc knowledge that the nonreciprocal properties are reinforced near the MSP resonance with its characteristic frequency determined by [111,112] 1 1 1 f = w + w = gH + gM . (20) m 0 m 0 s 2p 2 2 For the BMF H = 600 Oe and the saturation magnetization M = 1750 G, the MSP 0 s resonance frequency f = 4.1 GHz, in the vicinity of which the working frequency is chosen as f = 4 GHz. The results are shown in Figure 2, where the transmittance in panels (b) and (e) indicates that no electromagnetic waves can propagate through the MM slab, corresponding to the photonic band gap arising from the MSP resonance. Then, by exam- ining the reflectance and absorptance it can be found that the evident asymmetry can be demonstrated with respect to the positive and negative incident angles, especially, for the large incident angles, which is the identification of nonreciprocal reflection and absorption. In addition, by comparing the results from the MM slabs of type I and type II we can find that the MM made up of hollow ferrite rods exhibits better performance regrading Photonics 2022, 9, 699 9 of 19 the nonreciprocal properties. Interestingly, hollow ferrite rod correspond to less absorbing material, but it induces even stronger absorption as indicated by the absorptance in panels (c) and (f). In particular, at the incident angle q = 55 , nearly 100% absorption is inc achieved for the MM slab of type I with the damping factor around 4 10 , suggesting the implementation of perfect absorption. Differently, at the incident angle q = 55 about inc 50% electromagnetic wave is reflected. The phenomenon is termed nonreciprocal perfect absorption, yet the small reflection at q = 55 corresponds to the poor performance. inc The ideal performance of nonreciprocal perfect absorption implies the perfect absorption at one incident angle, but at the symmetric incident angle a total reflection is achieved. Although this cannot happen due to the existence of the material loss, the reflection can be improved by minimizing the material loss and, simultaneously, guaranteeing the perfect absorption at the symmetric direction. The MM of type II is a kind choice, a close examination of the absorptance in Figure 2f shows that a much smaller damping factor is required to achieve the perfect absorption with a 10 . In this case, the reflectance is larger than 70%, a much better performance is obtained. By incorporating a dielectric core is a feasible methodology to further improve the nonreciprocal absorption, which is to be presented in the following part by optimizing the relevant parameters. (b) (a) (c) 0.0 0.3 0.5 -25 0.8 -50 1.0 -75 (e) (d) (f) 0.0 0.3 0.5 -25 0.8 -50 1.0 -75 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 -2 -2 -2 ( 10 ) ( 10 ) ( 10 ) Figure 2. The reflectance (a,d), transmittance (b,e), and absorptance (c,f) are plotted as the functions of incident angle q and damping factor a for the 5-layer MM slabs made up of pure ferrite rods inc (a–c) and hollow ferrite rods (d–f), respectively. The MM slabs of type I and type II have the same lattice separation a = 9 mm, two kinds of ferrite rods have the same outer radius r = 2.25 mm, and the core radius of hollow ferrite rod is r = 0.8 mm. The BMH is H = 600 Oe and the working c 0 frequency is f = 4 GHz, locating at the vicinity of MSP resonance. To describe nonreciprocal reflection and absorption quantitatively, we re-plot R, T , and A in Figure 2 with the specified parameters in Figure 3, where the nearly perfect nonreciprocal absorption with much smaller damping factor a for the MM of type II can be found by comparing panels (a) and (d). From the spectra in Figure 3b,e, it can be found that the nonreciprocal perfect absorption can be solely achieved at a specified incident angle q with the value dependent on the damping factor and the type of MM. The evident inc asymmetry of spectra with respect to the normal incidence (q = 0 ) clearly identifies inc the nonreciprocal reflection and absorption. To understand the phenomenon, the effective constitutive parameters are calculated based on the generalized effective-medium theory (degree) (degree) i n c i n c Photonics 2022, 9, 699 10 of 19 as shown in Figure 3c,f, where the real part of effective permeability m is negative, e f f indicating the emergence of magnetic resonance. The single negative feature of effective parameters is responsible for the formation of photonic band gap and total reflection of electromagnetic waves. In addition, for both types of MMs the imaginary parts of m are e f f much larger than those of # , showing the dominant contribution of magnetic response e f f to the nonreciprocal perfect absorption. Besides, the imaginary part of m for the MM e f f of type I is relatively larger than that of type II, which results in the weaker reflectance (R = 55%) for the MM slab of type I than the reflectance (R = 73%) for the MM slab of type II, thus degrading the nonreciprocal effect due to the larger damping factor. 1.00 Re{ } Re{ } Im{ } Im{ } ef f ef f (a) (b) eff eff (c) 0.75 0.50 0.25 -2 -4 0.00 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 2 4 6 8 -75 -50 -25 0 25 50 75 ( ) (degree) inc ( ) 1.00 Re{ } Re{ } Im{ } Im{ } ef f ef f (d) (e) eff eff (f) 0.75 0.50 0 1 0.25 -2 -4 0.00 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 2 4 6 8 -75 -50 -25 0 25 50 75 -2 ( ) ( 10 ) (degree) inc Figure 3. R , T , and A are plotted as the functions of damping factor a (a), (d) at a fixed incident angle q = 55 and also plotted as the functions of the incident angle q (b), (e) with a fixed inc inc damping factor 5 10 for the MM slab of type I (a,b) and type II (d,e). The effective permittivity # and effective permeability m are plotted as the functions of the damping factor a for the MM e f f e f f slab of type I (c) and type II (f). The bias magnetic field is H = 600 Oe and the working frequency is f = 4 GHz and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. 4. Improving Nonreciprocity by Optimizing the DCL Ferrite Rod From the aforementioned discussion, it is evident that the introduction of DCL ferrite rod is feasible to improve nonreciprocal performance. As the most simple case, the air core, namely, the hollow ferrite rod is considered at the first step of optimization to ex- amine the possible limit we can achieve. Two critical parameters should be determined, i.e., the radius of air core r and the necessary damping factor a, which can be acquired by calculating the spectra of R, T , and A as the functions of the core radius r and the damping factor a. The results are shown in Figure 4, where the nonreciprocal absorption is realized with a very small damping factor a = 5 10 for the optimized air core radius r = 0.88 mm as indicated by the dashed line in the reflectance and absorptance. This damping factor is one order of magnitude smaller than that for the MM slab of type I, which can remarkably minimize the absorption at the opposite incident angle q = 55 . inc The transmittance in Figure 4b shows that with the increase of the air core radius r the photonic band gap tends to vanish with r > 1.75 mm and as is certain T = 1 for r = r , c c s corresponding to the disappearance of MM slab. To demonstrate the optimized results quantitatively, the R, T , and A are re-plotted as the functions of damping factor a at the fixed incident angle q = 55 as shown in Figure 4d, where the peak of absorptance or inc the dip of the reflectance indicates the optimized damping factor. In Figure 4e, the R, T , and A are plotted as the functions of incident angle q with the optimized air core radius inc r = 0.88 mm and the optimized damping factor a = 5 10 , where perfect absorption is achieved at the incident angle q = 55 and at the opposite incident angle q = 55 inc inc the reflectance is improved to be R = 87.5%, giving rise to a better performance of nonreciprocity. To explain the reason why such a small damping factor results in the nonre- , , , , R e { }, R e { } R e { }, R e { } e ff e ff e ff e ff Im { }, Im { } Im { }, Im { } e ff e ff e ff e ff Photonics 2022, 9, 699 11 of 19 ciprocal perfect absorption, the effective constitutive parameters are calculated as shown in Figure 4f, where a prominent peak comes into appearance for Imfm g with the amplitude e f f comparable to that shown in Figure 3. This actually corresponds to a resonance as to be shown later on. (b) (c) (a) 2.0 0.0 0.3 1.5 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.5 1.0 0.0 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6 -2 -2 -2 ( 10 ) ( 10 ) ( 10 ) 1.00 Re{ } Re{ } Im{ } Im{ } (d) (e) ef f ef f ef f ef f 2.0 0.75 (f) 1.5 0.50 0 1.0 0.25 -2 0.5 -4 0.00 0.0 0 2 4 6 -60 -30 0 30 60 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 -2 r (mm) ( 10 ) (degree) inc c Figure 4. R (a),T (b), andA (c) are plotted as the functions of damping factor a and the inner radius r of hollow core for the MM slab of type II at a fixed incident angle q = 55 . The spectra are inc plotted as the functions of the damping factor a (d) and the incident angle q (e) for the optimized inc core radius r = 0.88 mm. (f) The effective permittivity # and effective permeability m are plotted e f f e f f as the functions of core radius r at a fixed damping factor a = 5 10 . The BMF is H = 600 Oe, c 0 the working frequency is f = 4 GHz and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. For the dielectric core with other permittivity, the MM of type III are constructed and the similar results are obtained and shown in Figure 5 for # = 15, where the optimized core radius is a little bit different as marked by the white dashed line in panels (a)–(c). As indicated by the R, T , and A spectra in Figure 5d, an even smaller damping factor a = 3.5 10 is adequate to achieve the nonreciprocal perfect absorption. By plotting the R, T , and A as the functions of the incident angle q for the fixed damping factor inc a = 3.5 10 , it can be found that the perfect absorption is realized at the incident angle q = 55 and the reflection at the incident angle q = 55 is amount to R = 89.5%, inc inc improved a little bit compared to that in Figure 4. This can be explained by examining the effective parameters in Figure 5f, where the imaginary part of effective permeability Imfm g at the peak is relatively larger than that in Figure 4f although the damping factor e f f is relatively smaller. Regarding the dielectric core with other permittivity, the comparable nonreciprocal absorption can be found by optimizing the size of dielectric core, showing the same mechanism dominating the enhanced nonreciprocity. As shown in Figures 4 and 5, by optimizing the core radius r the enhanced nonreciprocal absorption can be acquired. Actually, the outer radius r of DCL ferrite rod can be served as another parameter to further improve the performance if the optimization of dielectric core cannot guarantee adequate quality. To present a clear picture of nonreciprocal perfect absorption, the electric field patterns are simulated for a Gaussian beam of TM polarization striking on the MM slab of type II at the incident angles q = 55 with mirror symmetry have been simulated based on the inc multiple scattering theory. The results are shown in Figure 6, where the specular reflection happens at the interface of lossless MM slab with damping factor a = 0 due to existence photonic band gap. As a result, not any nonreciprocal phenomenon can be observed by comparing the panels (a) and (d) although the scattering features of each DCL ferrite rod are different as to be shown in the following paragraph. The introduction of material loss can induce the absorption of electromagnetic waves due to the excitation of local modes of the DCL ferrite rods illuminated by the Gaussian beam. Therefore, the reflectance and , , r (m m ) R e { } , R e { } eff eff I m { } , I m { } eff eff Photonics 2022, 9, 699 12 of 19 absorptance are dependent on the excited local modes, which causes the nonreciprocal effects due to the different incident angles as shown in panels (b) and (e). Regarding the Gaussian beam incident from right hand side with q = 55 , nearly 90 percent of the inc energy flow are reflected, while the electromagnetic wave is completely absorbed for the left hand side incidence with q = 55 due to the destructive interference of the excited inc modes, forming a sharp contrast to the constructive interference in panel (d). In addition, by reversing the magnetization to z direction the nonreciprocal effect is reversed as shown in Figure 6c,f owing to the dependence of nonreciprocity on the BMF. (a) (b) (c) 2.0 0.0 0.3 1.5 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.5 1.0 0.0 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6 0 2 4 6 -2 -2 -2 ( 10 ) ( 10 ) ( 10 ) 1.00 Re{ } Re{ } Im{ } Im{ } ef f ef f e f f e f f (d) (e) 2.0 4 (f) 0.75 1.5 0.50 1.0 0.25 -2 0.5 -4 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 -60 -30 0 30 60 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 -2 ( 10 ) (degree) r (mm) inc c Figure 5. R (a),T (b), andA (c) are plotted as the functions of damping factor a and the inner radius r of dielectric core for the MM slab of type III at a fixed incident angle q = 55 . The spectra are c inc plotted as the functions of the damping factor a (d) and the incident angle q (e) for the optimized inc core radius r = 0.8 mm. (f) The effective permittivity # and effective permeability m are plotted e f f e f f as the functions of core radius r at a fixed damping factor a = 3.5 10 . The BMF is H = 600 Oe, c 0 the permittivity of dielectric core # = 15 for DCL ferrite rod, the working frequency is f = 4 GHz and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. 80 (a) (b) (c) -1.0 -0.5 0.0 80 (d) (e) (f) 0.5 1.0 -100 -50 0 50 100 -100 -50 0 50 100 -100 -50 0 50 100 x/a x/a x/a Figure 6. The electric field patterns illustrating the nonreciprocal perfect absorption for a Gaussian beam striking the composite MM slab of type II from the right hand side with q = 55 (a–c) and inc from the left hand side with q = 55 (d–f). The lossless MM slab with damping factors a = 0 (a,d), inc the lossy MM slab with damping factor a = 5 10 (b,e), and the lossy MM slab with damping factor a = 5 10 under reversed magnetization (c,f) are considered. The radius of dielectric core is r = 0.88 mm, the BMF is H = 600 Oe, the working frequency is f = 4 GHz, and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. To interpret the nonreciprocal perfect absorption and the enhancement of the nonre- ciprocity by the composite MMs of type II and III, the excited local modes of the ferrite rod positioned at the origin of MM slab have been simulated as shown in Figure 7, where a remarkable difference can be observed for the Gaussian beam incident from right (left) , , r (m m ) y/a y/a R e { } , R e { } eff eff I m { } , I m { } eff eff Photonics 2022, 9, 699 13 of 19 hand side with the incident angle q = 55 (q = 55 ) as indicated by comparing the inc inc field patterns at odd and even columns. It is evident that the Gaussian beam incident from left hand side with q = 55 can effectively excite the eigenmodes, corresponding to inc the much stronger local fields, leading to the perfect absorption. Differently, the excited local fields by the incident Gaussian beam from right hand side is much weaker so that the absorptance is much smaller, corresponding to the reflection of Gaussian beam, thus explaining the nonreciprocal absorption effect. For the MM slab of type I as shown in columns (a) and (b), it can be found that the partial wave field is mainly associated with the angular momentum channel n = +1, which is responsible for the nonreciprocal absorption. As a comparison, for the MM slabs of type II and III the excited local field of DCL ferrite rod comes not only from the +1st order partial wave but also from the that of the 1st order as shown in columns (d), (f), and (h). In addition, the 1st order modes exist inside the DCL ferrite rod, which results in the much more effective absorption, thus explaining the substantial enhancement of nonreciprocity for the MMs of type II and III. Actually, the optimization procedure in Figures 4 and 5 is to find out the appropriate permittivity and radius of dielectric core so that the 1st order mode exist inside the DCL ferrite rod and can be excited nonreciprocally at specified direction. Type I, = 0 Type II, = 0 Type II, = 5 Type III, = 5 0.3 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) 0.0 -0.3 -1.0 0.3 (a0) (b0) (c 0) (d 0) (e 0) (f 0) (g 0) (h0) 0.0 -0.5 -0.3 0.0 (a+1) (b+1) (c+1) (d+1) (e+1) (f+1) (g+1) (h+1) 0.3 0.5 0.0 -0.3 1.0 0.3 (a 1) (b 1) (c 1) (d 1) (e 1) (f 1) (g 1) (h 1) 0.0 -0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 -0.3 0.0 0.3 x/a x/a x/a x/a x/a x/a x/a x/a Figure 7. The scattered electric field from the ferrite rod positioned at the origin of MM slab of type I (a,b), type II (c,d) with damping factor a = 0 and a = 5 10 (e,f), and type III with damping factor a = 3.5 10 (g,h). The total scattered fields (the 1st row) and the scattered partial fields associated with the angular momentum channel of 0-th order (the 2nd row), +1st order (the 3rd row), and 1st order (the 4th row) are plotted for the incident angle q = 55 . The permittivities are 1 and 15, inc the core radii are 0.88 mm and 0.8 mm for the MMs of type II and III, and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. 5. Tunability by a BMF Due to the direct dependence of MSP resonance on BMF as given in Equation (20), the nonreciprocal absorption effect should be flexibly tuned, which can be investigated by calculating the absorptance A as the functions of BMF H and three other typical parameters, i.e., frequency f , incident angle q , and damping factor a. The results are inc shown in Figure 8, the operating frequency is shown to be tuned nearly in a linear manner as indicated by the white dashed line in panel (a), which can be further corroborated by re-plotting A under three different BMFs H = 530 Oe, 600 Oe, and 670 Oe as shown in Figure 8d. The peak of red solid line is f = 4 GHz, corresponding to the operating frequency under the BMF H = 600 Oe considered in previous sections. The other two peaks in green and blue solid lines correspond to the operating frequencies under two other BMFs, in good agreement with the linear relation between the MSP resonance frequency y/a y/a y/a y/a Photonics 2022, 9, 699 14 of 19 and the BMF in Equation (20). The angular dependence of nonreciprocal absorption effect is also examined in Figure 8b, where the nonreciprocal absorption effect becomes weaker and weaker when the operating frequency f = 4 GHz is far away from the MSP resonance frequency with the BMF deviated from 600 Oe, especially, from the nearly symmetric spectrum around 400 Oe as shown in Figure 8b. By plotting the absorptance A under two different BMFs H = 600 Oe and 580 Oe, the angular dependence is demonstrated only in the range of large incident angle, in particular, the nearly perfect absorption with A = 95% is achieved at the incident angle q = 80 and at the opposite incident angle q = 80 inc inc a nearly total reflection with R = 98% is achieved under the BMF H = 580 Oe as shown in Figure 8e. By calculating the absorptance as the function of BMF H and damping factor a as shown in Figure 8c, the minimal damping factor extracted in Figure 5 can still be the optimized one under the BMF H = 600 Oe. In addition, a very interesting issue is that a very small area close to this extremum with even smaller damping factor a is discerned as marked by the black circle, which can be more discernable in panel (f), especially, in the inset (g), where the perfect absorption is achieved with the damping factor a = 5 10 . However, the MM of type III with this extraordinary damping factor does not exhibit evident nonreciprocal absorption, but possesses wide-angle absorption. (a) (b) (c) 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.8 1.0 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.4 -60 -30 0 30 60 0 2 4 6 8 -2 f (GHz) (degree) ( 10 ) inc 530 Oe 1.00 600 Oe 5 8 0 Oe 6 0 0 Oe 670 Oe 0.75 5 7 8 Oe 6 0 0 Oe 6 1 0 Oe 1.00 0.50 0.75 0.50 0.25 0.25 (g) 0.00 (d) (e) 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 (f) 0.00 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.4 -60 -30 0 30 60 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 -2 ( 10 ) f (GHz) (degree) inc Figure 8. The tunability of nonreciprocal perfect absorption for the MM slab of type III by a BMF, shown by calculating the absorptance A as the function of BMF H and working frequency f (a) at the specified incident angle q = 55 and fixed damping factor a = 3.5 10 , as the function inc of BMF H and incident angle q (b) for the fixed damping factor a = 3.5 10 and working inc frequency f = 4 GHz, as the function of BMF H and damping factor a (c) for the fixed incident angle q = 55 and working frequency f = 4 GHz. To quantitatively illustrate the dependence on BMF, inc (d) the absorptance A in panel (a) under three different BMFs is re-plotted, (e) the absorptance A in panel (b) under two different BMFs is re-plotted, and (f) the absorptance A in panel (c) under three different BMFs is re-plotted. The inset (g) in panel (f) is the amplified view of the absorptance in the range of low damping factor. The permittivity of the DC in DCL ferrite rod is # = 15, the core radius is r = 0.8 mm, and the other parameters are the same as those in Figure 2. 6. Conclusions In summary, we have constructed composite MMs composed of an array of DCL ferrite rods with either hollow or dielectric cores, which can be employed to implement the NPAs in that the perfect absorption is observed for the Gaussian beam incident at a specified direction, while a nearly total reflection is incurred at the symmetric incident direction. It is H (Oe) Photonics 2022, 9, 699 15 of 19 demonstrated that the material loss plays a crucial role for the nonreciprocal absorption effect, but a very strong loss will degrade the nonreciprocity of the system. Based on the generalized effective-medium theory, it is shown that at the working frequency the effective magnetic permeability is negative, corresponding to the frequency in the vicinity of MSP resonance. In particular, the peak of Imfm g for the MMs of type II and III e f f with a much smaller damping factor has the comparable amplitude as that of the MM of type I, which explains the enhancement of nonreciprocal absorption effect. The partial wave analysis indicates that an additional -1st order resonance emerges inside the DCL ferrite rod, which corresponds to the appearance of absorption peak for the MMs of type II and III. In addition, the operating frequency can be flexibly controlled by tuning the magnitude of BMF and the nonreciprocity can also be reversed by use of the opposite magnetization. The concept proposed in this research can be extended to the optical region with magneto-optical materials and find more promising applications. Author Contributions: S.L. conceived the idea. Y.C. derived the effective-medium theory and performed the simulations. S.L. and Y.C. wrote and finalized the manuscript. Y.Z., L.Z. (Lingzhong Zhao), G.W., L.Z. 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Photonics – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Published: Sep 27, 2022
Keywords: nonreciprocal perfect absorber; magnetic metamaterials; magnetic surface plasmon; time-reversal symmetry breaking; effective-medium theory; multiple scattering theory