Theory of electromagnetic pulses /

This book presents the theory of electromagnetic pulses in a simple and physical way. All pulses discussed are exact solutions of the Maxwell equations, and have finite energy, momentum and angular momentum. The subject matter is restricted to free-space classical electrodynamics, but contact is mad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lekner, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Electromagnetic pulse.
Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism.
SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Fundamentals
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Universal properties of electromagnetic pulses
  • 1.3. Conservation laws
  • 1.4. Energy-momentum inequality
  • 1.5. Lorentz invariants
  • Appendix A. Radiation of electromagnetic pulses
  • Appendix B. Particle wavepackets
  • 2. Solutions of the wave equation
  • 2.1. Vector and scalar potentials
  • 2.2. General solutions of the wave equation
  • 2.3. Solutions with both z - ct and z + ct space-time dependence
  • 2.4. Solutions in cylindrical coordinates
  • 2.5. Bateman's integral solution
  • 2.6. Pulses as superpositions of beams, casual waveforms
  • Appendix A. Cylindrical integrals related to spherical sums
  • Appendix B. Two-parameter causal wavefunctions
  • Appendix C. The causal wavefunction [psi]0 in 'spheroidal' coordinates
  • 3. Electromagnetic pulses
  • 3.1. E and B from solutions of the wave equation
  • 3.2. TE and TM pulses
  • 3.3. Self-dual complex fields, TE+iTM pulses
  • 3.4. A particular TE+iTM pulse
  • 3.5. The Ziolowski, Hellwarth-Nouchi pulse
  • 3.6. The Feng, Winful and Hellwarth pulse
  • 3.7. Oscillatory pulses
  • 3.8. Causal TE and TM pulses
  • Appendix A. Energy of a TE+iTM pulse
  • Appendix B. Chirality measures of electromagnetic fields
  • 4. Angular momentum
  • 4.1. Intrinsic angular momentum, polarization
  • 4.2. A TE+iTM self-dual pulse
  • 4.3. Two self-dual 'CP' pulses
  • 4.4. Pulses based on wavefunctions with azimuthal dependence
  • 4.5. Causal TE+iTM pulses
  • 4.6. Causal self-dual 'CP' pulses
  • Appendix A. Evaluation of J<U+007A> for a TE+iTM pulse
  • Appendix B. Singular integrals over products of Bessel functions
  • 5. Lorentz transformation of pulses
  • 5.1. Lorentz transformation of scalar pulses
  • 5.2. Transformation of electromagnetic pulses
  • 5.3. A TE+iTM pulse in its zero-momentum frame
  • 5.4. A self-dual 'CP' pulse in its zero-momentum frame
  • 5.5. A causal TE+iTM pulse in its zero-momentum frame.

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