Two-Scale Approach to an Asymptotic Solution of Maxwell Equations in Layered Periodic Media

Abstract: An asymptotic investigation of monochromatic electromagnetic fields in a layered periodic medium is carried out under the assumption that the wave frequency is close to the frequency of a stationary point of the dispersion surface. We find solutions of Maxwell equations by the method of two-scale asymptotic expansions. We establish that the principal order of the expansion of a solution dependent on three spatial coordinates is the sum of two differently polarized Floquet-Bloch solutions, each of which is multiplied by a slowly varying envelope function. We derive that the envelope functions satisfy a system of differential equations with constant coefficients. In new variables, it is reduced to a system of two independent equations, both of them are either hyperbolic or elliptic, depending on the type of the stationary point. The envelope functions are independent only in the planar case. Some consequences are discussed.