The Study of the Bloch Transformed Fields Scattered by Locally Perturbed Periodic Surfaces

TL;DR

This paper investigates the regularity and singularity properties of the Bloch transform of scattered fields from locally perturbed periodic surfaces, providing insights that could enhance numerical solutions.

Contribution

It establishes the analytic dependence of the Bloch transform on quasi-periodicities under certain conditions, extending previous theoretical results.

Findings

Bloch transform depends analytically on quasi-periodicities except at countable points

Near singular points, the Bloch transform exhibits square-root like singularities

Conditions for analyticity are satisfied by many common incident fields

Abstract

Scattering problems with locally perturbed periodic surfaces have been studied both theoretically and numerically in recent years. In this paper, we will discuss the regularity results of the Bloch transform of the total fields. The idea is inspired by Theorem a in \cite{Kirsc1993}, which considered how the total field depends on the wave numbers and the incident angles, with a family of plain incident fields and a smooth enough periodic surface. We will show that when the incident field satisfies some certain conditions, the Bloch transform of the total field depends analytically on the quasi-periodicities one the straight line $\R$ except for a countable number of points, while near such points, a square-root like singularity exists. We also give some examples to show that the conditions are satisfied by a large number of commonly used incident fields. This result also provides a probability to improve the numerical solution of this kind of problems, which is expected to be discussed in our future papers.