Plane wave diffraction by a semi-infinite parallel-plate waveguide with partial material loading: The case of H polarisation

Abstract

The analysis of diffraction by a semi-infinite parallel-plate waveguide with partial material loading is rigorously carried out using the Wiener–Hopf technique for the H-polarised plane wave incidence. In solving the Wiener–Hopf equations, the authors apply the Modified Residue Calculus Technique (MRCT) to achieve highly accurate solutions. The scattered field in real space is explicitly derived by performing the inverse Fourier transform of the solution in the transform domain. Within the waveguide, the scattered field is represented in terms of the waveguide TM modes, while the external field is asymptotically evaluated by applying the saddle-point method to yield a far field expression. The authors present representative numerical examples of the radar cross section for various physical parameters and discuss the far-field scattering characteristics in detail. Comparisons with the E-polarisation are also given.