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We investigate the radiation properties of two types of elementary sources embedded in a uniaxial wire medium: a short dipole parallel to the wires and a lumped voltage source connected across a gap in a generic metallic wire. It is demonstrated that the radiation pattern of these elementary sources may have quite anomalous and unusual properties. Specifically, the radiation pattern of a short vertical dipole resembles that of an isotropic radiator close to the effective plasma frequency of the wire medium, whereas the radiation from the lumped voltage generator is characterized by an infinite directivity and a nondiffractive far-field distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In media with strong spatial dispersion, the electric displacement vector and the electric field are typically linked by a partial differential equation in the bulk region. The objective of this work is to highlight that in the vicinity of an interface, the relation between the macroscopic fields cannot be univocally determined from the bulk response of the involved materials but instead requires knowledge of internal degrees of freedom of the materials. We derive such a relation for the particular case of "wire media" and describe a numerical formalism that enables characterization of the electromagnetic response of arbitrarily shaped spatially dispersive bodies formed by arrays of crossed wires. The possibility of concentrating the electromagnetic field in a narrow spot by tapering a metamaterial waveguide is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]