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Robust Computation of Dipole Electromagnetic Fields in Arbitrarily-Anisotropic, Planar-Stratified Environments

We develop a general-purpose formulation, based on two-dimensional spectral integrals, for computing electromagnetic fields produced by arbitrarily-oriented dipoles in planar-stratified environments, where each layer may exhibit arbitrary and independent anisotropy in both the (complex) permittivity and permeability. Among the salient features of our formulation are (1) computation of eigenmodes (characteristic plane waves) supported in arbitrarily anisotropic media in a numerically robust fashion, (2) implementation of an hp-adaptive refinement for the numerical integration to evaluate the radiation and weakly-evanescent spectra contributions, and (3) development of an adaptive extension of an integral convergence acceleration technique to compute the strongly-evanescent spectrum contribution. While other semianalytic techniques exist to solve this problem, none have full applicability to media exhibiting arbitrary double anisotropies in each layer, where one must account for the whole range of possible phenomena such as mode coupling at interfaces and non-reciprocal mode propagation. Brute-force numerical methods can tackle this problem but only at a much higher computational cost. The present formulation provides an efficient and robust technique for field computation in arbitrary planar-stratified environments. We demonstrate the formulation for a number of problems related to geophysical exploration.