Overview
- Gives detailed asymptotic description of pulsed wave fields in dielectrics, conductors, and semiconductors
- Describes angular spectrum representation of pulsed radiation fields in linear, temporally dispersive media
- Examines the controversial question of superluminal pulse propagation
- Includes exercises and background material on asymptotic expansions of integrals
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 225)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Drude model of conductivity
- Rocard-Powles extension
- optical beam field propagation
- propagation in attenuative media
- propagation in dispersive media
- pulsed electromagnetic field propagation
- superliminal pulse propagation
- time-domain electromagnetics
- time-domain optics
- ultrashort pulses
- asymptotic methods in optics
About this book
Volume 2 presents a detailed asymptotic description of plane wave pulse propagation in dielectric, conducting, and semiconducting materials as described by the classical Lorentz model of dielectric resonance, the Rocard-Powles-Debye model of orientational polarization, and the Drude model of metals. The rigorous description of the signal velocity of a pulse in a dispersive material is presented in connection with the question of superluminal pulse propagation. The second edition contains new material on the effects of spatial dispersion on precursor formation, and pulse transmission into a dispersive half space and into multilayered media.
Volume 1 covers spectral representations in temporally dispersive media.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kurt Oughstun is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science in the College of Engineering & Mathematics at the University of Vermont where he was University Scholar in the Basic and Applied Sciences. A graduate of The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, he is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a member of the European Optical Society and a member of the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science. His research centers on electromagnetic and optical wave theory, asymptotic methods of analysis, and computational techniques. He has published extensively on his research in these areas in such journals as the Journal of the Optical Society of America A & B, Journal of the European Optical Society A, Physical Review A & E, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Proceedings, and Radio Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electromagnetic and Optical Pulse Propagation
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Temporal Pulse Dynamics in Dispersive Attenuative Media
Authors: Kurt E. Oughstun
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20692-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20691-8Published: 07 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20694-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20692-5Published: 17 July 2019
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 794
Number of Illustrations: 301 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Mathematical Methods in Physics