Nonreciprocal surface plasmons in angularly varying, magnetized, metasurface tubes

Abstract

We analytically and numerically study the nonreciprocal surface waves guided by a magnetized metasurface tube. When applying the magnetic bias perpendicularly to the cylinder axis, the conductivity profile cross-section is nonuniform, which enables us to obtain pronounced nonreciprocal modes with different field distributions for propagation in opposite directions due to the coupling between different values of orbital angular momentum. We show that this property can be leveraged for directional power delivery when changing the source location, and we study the isolation ratio as a function of different parameters. The simple, continuous dependence of the isolation on the direction of magnetization allows simple yet robust control over the wave propagation properties.