The Coupling of Electromagnetic Waves Through Long Slots

The problem of a plane wave incident upon one or more long, parallel slots in an infinite plane screen is treated by the method of moments. A Galerkin´s solution with triangular expansion and weighting functions is used. The complete solution for aperture fields, transmission coefficients, near and far fields is formulated and programmed. Arbitrary polarization and arbitrary angles of incidence are treated. Where comparison is possible, there is good agreement with classical results. Wide slots, and multiple slots, which cannot be treated by classical methods, are readily handled by the method of moments procedure. Two separate computer programs have been prepared for a) single slot and b) double slots. The theory is outlined; the computer program is described briefly, and representative examples are given.