Author : L. B. Felsen
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1990
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Analysis of source-excited time-harmonic and transient electromagnetic wave propagation in complicated environments, wave scattering by complicated targets, or wave penetration into complex structures generally requires decomposition of the incident field into elementary constituents, tracking each constituent through the environment or past the scatter, and recombining at the observer. The elementary constituents are spectral objects such as plane waves, cylindrical waves, conical waves, modal fields, ray field etc. Under transient conditions, the recombination is conventionally performed first on the time-harmonic constituents, with frequency synthesis performed thereafter, but one may alternatively, by a less conventional approach, employ transient constituents (transient plane or cylindrical waves, etc.) and perform the remaining spatial synthesis thereafter. Viewed from this general perspective, there exists an enormous flexibility in the selection of the spectral objects, and of hybrid combinations, for analysis of a particular propagation or scattering problem. It is the objective of the proposed research to examine the various spectral options in their most fundamental terms, study the relation between them, and then assess which option best addresses a particular propagation or scattering phenomenon. (RRH).