High Contrast Transmission and Fabry-P\'erot-type Resonances

TL;DR

This paper investigates a family of infinite acoustic resonances caused by high contrast transmission, including Minnaert and Fabry-Pérot-type resonances, and explores their properties and potential for anisotropic metamaterial design.

Contribution

It introduces the existence of multiple resonances near the real axis due to high contrast transmission and derives their asymptotic expansions, resolvent estimates, and time-domain behaviors.

Findings

Multiple infinite resonances are near the real axis, including Minnaert and Fabry-Pérot types.

Asymptotic expansions of resonances are derived up to second order.

Near Fabry-Pérot resonances, the microresonator shows pronounced anisotropy.

Abstract

It is well known, in the acoustic model, that highly contrasting transmission leads to the so-called Minnaert subwavelength resonance. In this work, we show that such highly contrasting transmissions create not only one resonance but a family of infinite resonances located near the real axis where the first one (i.e. the smallest) is indeed the Minnaert one. This family of resonances are the shifts (in the lower complex plan) of the Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian. The well known Minneart resonance is nothing but the shift of the trivial (zero) Neumann eigenvalue of the bubble. These resonances, other than the Minnaert ones, are Fabry-P\'erot-type resonances as the generated total fields, in the bubble, are dominated by a linear combination of the Neumann eigenfunctions which, in particular, might create interferences. In addition, we establish the following properties. 1. We derive the asymptotic expansions, at the second order, of this family of resonances in terms of the contrasting coefficient. 2. In the time-harmonic regime, we derive the resolvent estimates of the related Hamiltonian and the asymptotics of scattered fields that are uniform in the whole space, highlighting the contributions from this sequence of resonances. 3. In the time domain regime, we derive the time behavior of the acoustic microresonator at large time-scales inversely proportional to powers of microresonator's radius. 4. The analysis shows that near Fabry-P\'erot resonances, the mircoresonator exhibits pronounced anisotropy. We believe that such a feature may pave the way for designing anisotropic metamaterials from simple configurations of a single microresonator.