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D Razansky1, P D Einziger, D R Adam
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. danir@tx.technion.ac.il
Abstract:
Broadband analysis of a prototype model associated with electromagnetic waves absorption in a lossy dielectric slab renders a closed-form theoretical prediction of an infinite number of optimal absorption paths in the complex refractive index domain. While for thin slabs (in terms of incident wavelength range) each path corresponds to a lossy Fabry-Perot-type resonance modes of order m=0,1,2,... and provides at least 50% absorption of the incident wave power even for ultrathin slabs, for optimal thick slabs, the fraction of absorbed power, asymptotically estimated via Lambert W function, increases up to 100% for consecutive continuation of the m=1 normal mode only.
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