Everything about Wave Guide totally explained
A
waveguide is a structure which guides waves, such as
electromagnetic waves,
light, or
sound waves. There are different types of waveguide for each type of wave.
Electromagnetic waveguides
Waveguides can be constructed to carry waves over a wide portion of the
electromagnetic spectrum, but are especially useful in the
microwave and
optical frequency ranges. Depending on the frequency, they can be constructed from either
conductive or
dielectric materials. Waveguides are used for transferring both
power and communication signals.
Optical waveguides
Waveguides used at optical frequencies are typically dielectric waveguides, structures in which a
dielectric material with high
permittivity, and thus high
index of refraction, is surrounded by a material with lower permittivity. The structure guides optical waves by
total internal reflection. The most common optical waveguide is
optical fiber.
Other types of optical waveguide are also used, including
photonic-crystal fiber, which guides waves by any of several distinct mechanisms. Guides in the form of a hollow tube with a highly reflective inner surface have also been used as
light pipes for illumination applications. The inner surfaces may be polished metal, or may be covered with a multilayer film that guides light by
Bragg reflection (this is a special case of a photonic-crystal fiber). One can also use small
prisms around the pipe which reflect light via total internal reflection
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)—such confinement is necessarily imperfect, however, since total internal reflection can never truly guide light within a
lower-index core (in the prism case, some light leaks out at the prism corners).
Acoustic waveguides
An
acoustic waveguide is a physical structure for guiding sound waves. A duct for sound propagation also behaves like a
transmission line. The duct contains some medium, such as air, that supports sound propagation.
Sound synthesis
Uses
digital delay lines as computational elements to simulate
wave propagation in tubes of
wind instruments and the
vibrating strings of
string instruments.
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