Electromagnetic Pulse Propagation in Causal Dielectrics
By: by K.E. Oughstun, G.C. Sherman
Contributors: Sherman, G. C.
Series: Wave Phenomena -- 16; Wave Phenomena -- 16.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9783642647536; 9783642612275
Subjects: Physics
Description: Electromagnetic Pulse Propagation in Causal Dielectrics presents a systematic treatment of the theory of the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (such as ultrashort, ultrawide-band pulses) through homogeneous, isotopic, locally linear media which exhibit both dispersion and absorption. The subject of the book is twofold. Part I presents a detailed rigorous treatment of the fundamental theory of electromagnetic pulse propagation in causally dispersive media that is applicable to dielectric, conducting, or semiconducting media. Part II provides a detailed asymptotic description of plane-wave pulse propagation in a Lorentz model dielectric and provides a rigorous account ot the signal velocity of a pulse in that dispersive medium.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Introduction; title: Part I: Fundamental Theory; title: Fundamental Field Equations in a Temporally Dispersive Medium; title: The Anular Spectrum Representation of the Pulsed Radiation Field; title: The Angular Spectrum Representation of Pulsed Electromagnetic Beam Fields; title: Advanced Saddle-Point Methods for the Asymptotic Evaluation of Single Contour Integrals; title: Part II: Asymptotic Theory of Plane Wave Pulse Propagation in a Single Resonance Lorentz Medium; title: Analysis of the Phase Function and Its Saddle Points; title: Evolution of the Precursor Fields; title: Evolution of the Main Signal; title: The Continuous Evolution of the Total Field; title: Physical Interpretation of the Pulse Dynamics; title: References; title: Subject Index.