The Asymptotic Theory of the Reflection and Transmission of a Pulsed Electromagnetic Beam Field at a Planar Interface Separating Two Dispersive Media
Abstract
Our long-term research goal is to develop a rigorous analytic formulation and, uniform asymptotic description of pulsed electromagnetic beam-field propagation, reflection, and transmission phenomena in causally dispersive dielectric and conducting media. Emphasis has been placed first on a formulation that has been rigorously obtained from the macroscopic Maxwell's equations with constitutive relations that are appropriate for a homogeneous, isotropic, nonhysteretic, locally linear, temporally dispersive medium, followed by the development and application of the required uniform asymptotic expansion techniques that are necessary to provide a completely continuous description of the space-time evolution of the pulsed beam-field at sufficiently large propagation distances into the dispersive, attenuative medium.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA332249
Entities
People
- Kurt E. Oughstun
Organizations
- University of Vermont