ELECTRIC DIPOLE RADIATION IN ISOTROPIC AND UNIAXIAL PLASMAS.
Abstract
An investigation is described of radiation from an electric point dipole situated in a cold, collisionless, homogeneous, electronic plasma medium. Two limiting cases of a gyroelectric medium are studied. The magnetostatic biasing field is first taken to be equal to zero, making the medium isotropic, and then it is taken to be infinite, causing a uniaxial anisotropy. The retarded electromagnetic fields and the instantaneous and averaged values of irreversibly radiated power are calculated. In each medium, the partial differential equations resulting from the two-sided Laplace transformation of Maxwell's equations with an oscillating electric dipole source and the constitutive equations (derived from the appropriate form of the Lorentz force equation) are solved. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0672267
Entities
People
- John J. Kenny
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology