ON THE USE OF REFRACTIVE INDEX DIAGRAMS FOR SOURCE-EXCITED ANISOTROPIC REGIONS.

Abstract

The use of refractive index diagrams in the study of plane wave propagation in unbounded and layered anisotropic media is reviewed and then extended to account for certain aspects of the radiation from confined source distributions. Such items as the radiation condition, saddle point location, focusing effects, lateral ray trajectories, Cerenkov radiation, and others are interpreted via the refractive index plots. While some of this material is available in various technical publications, the aim here is at a more unified presentation. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 10, 1964
Accession Number
AD0607960

Entities

People

  • L. B. Felsen

Organizations

  • New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorbers (Materials)
  • Advanced Materials
  • Cerenkov Radiation
  • Engineered Materials
  • Materials
  • Metamaterials
  • Plane Waves
  • Plasmonic Materials
  • Radiation
  • Refractive Index
  • Trajectories
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Solar Physics
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.