Time Domain Impulse Antenna Study
Abstract
The final report contains the results of an investigation to use the concepts of radiation from accelerating charges to develop the radiation characteristics of pulse-excited antennas in the time domain. The transition to antennas is accomplished through derivation of a radiation equation involving the time-derivative of the antenna currents. For sinusoidal time variation this equation reproduces well-known results for a number of common antennas. For pulse-excited linear antennas, the radiation equation produces a result derived previously by retarded potential and other methods. Numerical comparison with a published frequency-domain analysis of a pulsed dipole shows reasonable agreement except for angles close to the end-fire direction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0744837
Entities
People
- Morris Handelsman
Organizations
- University of Vermont