Exceptional Degeneracy in a Waveguide Periodically Loaded with Discrete Gain and Radiation Loss Elements

Abstract

We demonstrate that a periodic waveguide comprising of uniform lossless segments together with discrete gain and radiating elements supports exceptional points of degeneracy (EPDs). We provide analytical expressions for all possible conditions that guarantee the occurrence of an EPD, i.e., the coalescence of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. We show that EPDs are not only achieved using symmetric gain and radiation periodic loading, but they are also obtained using asymmetric gain and radiation loss conditions. We illustrate the characteristics of the degenerate electromagnetic modes, showing the dispersion diagram and discussing the tunability of the EPD frequency. We show a special condition, we refer to it as parity-time (PT)-glide symmetry, which leads to a degeneracy that is occurring at all frequencies of operation. The class of EPDs proposed in this work is very promising for many applications that incorporate discrete-distributed coherent sources and radiation-loss elements; operating in the vicinity of such special degeneracy conditions leads to potential performance enhancement in a variety of microwave and optical resonators, antennas, and devices and can be extended to a new class of active integrated antenna arrays and radiating laser arrays.

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