  Manipulation of radiation is required for enabling a span of electromagnetic
applications. Since properties of antennas and scatterers are very sensitive to
a surrounding environment, macroscopic artificially created materials are good
candidates for shaping their characteristics. In particular, metamaterials
enable controlling both dispersion and density of electromagnetic states,
available for scattering from an object. As the result, properly designed
electromagnetic environment could govern waves' phenomena. Here electromagnetic
properties of scattering dipoles, situated inside a wire medium (metamaterial)
are analyzed both numerically and experimentally. Impact of the metamaterial
geometry, dipole arrangement inside the medium, and frequency of the incident
radiation on scattering phenomena was studied. It was shown that the resonance
of the dipole hybridizes with Fabry-Perot modes of the metamaterial, giving
rise to a complete reshaping of electromagnetic properties. Regimes of
controlled scattering suppression and super-scattering were observed. Numerical
analysis is in an agreement with experiments, performed at the GHz spectral
range. The reported approach to scattering control with metamaterials could be
directly mapped into optical and infrared spectral ranges by employing
scalability properties of Maxwell's equations.
