Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas

Sophocles J. Orfanidis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

// absolute_page_number=1 Preface xiii 8 // absolute_page_number=0 1 Maxwell's Equations 1 1.1 Maxwell's Equations, 1 1.2 Lorentz Force, 2 1.3 Constitutive Relations, 3 1.4 Boundary Conditions, 7 5 1.5 Currents, Fluxes, and Conservation Laws, 9 1.6 Charge Conservation, 10 1.7 Energy Flux and Energy Conservation, 11 1.8 Harmonic Time Dependence, 13 1.9 Simple Models of Dielectrics, Conductors, and Plasmas, 16 1.10 Kramers-Kronig Dispersion Relations, 26 1.11 Group Velocity, Energy Velocity, 29 1.12 Problems, 31 2 Uniform Plane Waves 36 2.1 Uniform Plane Waves in Lossless Media, 36 6 2.2 Monochromatic Waves, 42 2.3 Energy Density and Flux, 45 2.4 Wave Impedance, 46 2.5 Polarization, 46 2.6 Uniform Plane Waves in Lossy Media, 52 2.7 Propagation in Weakly Lossy Dielectrics, 58 2.8 Propagation in Good Conductors, 59 2.9 Propagation in Oblique Directions, 61 2.10 Complex or Inhomogeneous Waves, 63 2.11 Doppler Effect, 66 2.12 Propagation in Negative-Index Media, 70 2.13 Problems, 73 3 Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Media 80 3.1 Propagation Filter, 80 3.2 Front Velocity and Causality, 82 3.3 Exact Impulse Response Examples, 85 3.4 Transient and Steady-State Behavior, 88 3.5 Pulse Propagation and Group Velocity, 92 3.6 Group Velocity Dispersion and Pulse Spreading, 95 3.7 Propagation and Chirping, 100 3.8 Dispersion Compensation, 101 3.9 Slow, Fast, and Negative Group Velocities, 103 3.10 Chirp Radar and Pulse Compression, 110 3.11 Further Reading, 120 3.12 Problems, 120 4 Propagation in Birefringent Media 129 4.1 Linear and Circular Birefringence, 129 4.2 Uniaxial and Biaxial Media, 130 4.3 Chiral Media, 132 4.4 Gyrotropic Media, 135 4.5 Linear and Circular Dichroism, 136 4.6 Oblique Propagation in Birefringent Media, 137 4.7 Problems, 144 5 Reflection and Transmission 150 5.1 Propagation Matrices, 150 5.2 Matching Matrices, 154 5.3 Reflected and Transmitted Power, 157 5.4 Single Dielectric Slab, 160 5.5 Reflectionless Slab, 163 5.6 Time-Domain Reflection Response, 171 5.7 Two Dielectric Slabs, 173 5.8 Reflection by a Moving Boundary, 175 5.9 Problems, 178 6 Multilayer Structures 183 6.1 Multiple Dielectric Slabs, 183 6.2 Antireflection Coatings, 185 6.3 Dielectric Mirrors, 190 6.4 Propagation Bandgaps, 201 6.5 Narrow-Band Transmission Filters, 201 6.6 Equal Travel-Time Multilayer Structures, 206 6.7 Applications of Layered Structures, 220 6.8 Chebyshev Design of Reflectionless Multilayers, 223 6.9 Problems, 231 7 Oblique Incidence 238 7.1 Oblique Incidence and Snel's Laws, 238 7.2 Transverse Impedance, 240 7.3 Propagation and Matching of Transverse Fields, 243 7.4 Fresnel Reflection Coefficients, 245 7.5 Maximum Angle and Critical Angle, 247 7.6 Brewster Angle, 256 7.7 Complex Waves, 258 7.8 Total Internal Reflection, 261 7.9 Oblique Incidence on a Lossy Medium, 262 7.10 Zenneck Surface Wave, 267 7.11 Surface Plasmons, 269 7.12 Oblique Reflection from a Moving Boundary, 272 7.13 Geometrical Optics, 276 7.14 Fermat's Principle, 279 7.15 Ray Tracing, 281 7.16 Snel's Law in Negative-Index Media, 292 7.17 Problems, 295 8 Multilayer Film Applications 300 8.1 Multilayer Dielectric Structures at Oblique Incidence, 300 8.2 Lossy Multilayer Structures, 302 8.3 Single Dielectric Slab, 304 8.4 Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, 306 8.5 Surface Plasmon Resonance, 310 8.6 Perfect Lens in Negative-Index Media, 319 8.7 Antireflection Coatings at Oblique Incidence, 327 8.8 Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirrors, 330 8.9 Polarizing Beam Splitters, 341 8.10 Reflection and Refraction in Birefringent Media, 343 8.11 Brewster and Critical Angles in Birefringent Media, 347 8.12 Multilayer Birefringent Structures, 350 8.13 Giant Birefringent Optics, 352 8.14 Problems, 357 9 Waveguides 359 9.1 Longitudinal-Transverse Decompositions, 360 9.2 Power Transfer and Attenuation, 365 9.3 TEM, TE, and TM modes, 367 9.4 Rectangular Waveguides, 370 9.5 Higher TE and TM modes, 372 9.6 Operating Bandwidth, 374 9.7 Power Transfer, Energy Density, and Group Velocity, 375 9.8 Power Attenuation, 377 9.9 Reflection Model of Waveguide Propagation, 380 9.10 Resonant Cavities, 382 9.11 Dielectric Slab Waveguides, 384 9.12 Problems, 392 10 Transmission Lines 394 10.1 General Properties of TEM Transmission Lines, 394 10.2 Parallel Plate Lines, 400 10.3 Microstrip Lines, 401 10.4 Coaxial Lines, 405 10.5 Two-Wire Lines, 410 10.6 Distributed Circuit Model of a Transmission Line, 412 10.7 Wave Impedance and Reflection Response, 414 10.8 Two-Port Equivalent Circuit, 416 10.9 Terminated Transmission Lines, 417 10.10 Power Transfer from Generator to Load, 420 10.11 Open- and Short-Circuited Transmission Lines, 422 10.12 Standing Wave Ratio, 425 10.13 Determining an Unknown Load Impedance, 427 10.14 Smith Chart, 431 10.15 Time-Domain Response of Transmission Lines, 435 10.16 Problems, 442 11 Coupled Lines 453 11.1 Coupled Transmission Lines, 453 11.2 Crosstalk Between Lines, 459 11.3 Weakly Coupled Lines with Arbitrary Terminations, 462 11.4 Coupled-Mode Theory, 464 11.5 Fiber Bragg Gratings, 466 11.6 Diffuse Reflection and Transmission, 469 11.7 Problems, 471 12 Impedance Matching 473 12.1 Conjugate and Reflectionless Matching, 473 12.2 Multisection Transmission Lines, 475 12.3 Quarter-Wavelength Chebyshev Transformers, 476 12.4 Two-Section Dual-Band Chebyshev Transformers, 482 12.5 Quarter-Wavelength Transformer With Series Section, 488 12.6 Quarter-Wavelength Transformer With Shunt Stub, 491 12.7 Two-Section Series Impedance Transformer, 493 12.8 Single Stub Matching, 498 12.9 Balanced Stubs, 502 12.10 Double and Triple Stub Matching, 504 12.11 L-Section Lumped Reactive Matching Networks, 506 12.12 Pi-Section Lumped Reactive Matching Networks, 509 12.13 Reversed Matching Networks, 516 12.14 Problems, 518 13 S-Parameters 522 13.1 Scattering Parameters, 522 13.2 Power Flow, 526 13.3 Parameter Conversions, 527 13.4 Input and Output Reflection Coefficients, 528 13.5 Stability Circles, 530 13.6 Power Gains, 536 13.7 Generalized S-Parameters and Power Waves, 542 13.8 Simultaneous Conjugate Matching, 546 13.9 Power Gain Circles, 551 13.10 Unilateral Gain Circles, 552 13.11 Operating and Available Power Gain Circles, 554 13.12 Noise Figure Circles, 560 13.13 Problems, 565 14 Radiation Fields 568 14.1 Currents and Charges as Sources of Fields, 568 14.2 Retarded Potentials, 570 14.3 Harmonic Time Dependence, 573 14.4 Fields of a Linear Wire Antenna, 575 14.5 Fields of Electric and Magnetic Dipoles, 577 14.6 Ewald-Oseen Extinction Theorem, 582 14.7 Radiation Fields, 587 14.8 Radial Coordinates, 590 14.9 Radiation Field Approximation, 592 14.10 Computing the Radiation Fields, 593 14.11 Problems, 595 15 Transmitting and Receiving Antennas 598 15.1 Energy Flux and Radiation Intensity, 598 15.2 Directivity, Gain, and Beamwidth, 599 15.3 Effective Area, 604 15.4 Antenna Equivalent Circuits, 608 15.5 Effective Length, 610 15.6 Communicating Antennas, 612 15.7 Antenna Noise Temperature, 614 15.8 System Noise Temperature, 618 15.9 Data Rate Limits, 624 15.10 Satellite Links, 626 15.11 Radar Equation, 629 15.12 Problems, 631 16 Linear and Loop Antennas 634 16.1 Linear Antennas, 634 16.2 Hertzian Dipole, 636 16.3 Standing-Wave Antennas, 638 16.4 Half-Wave Dipole, 642 16.5 Monopole Antennas, 643 16.6 Traveling-Wave Antennas, 645 16.7 Vee and Rhombic Antennas, 647 16.8 Loop Antennas, 650 16.9 Circular Loops, 652 16.10 Square Loops, 654 16.11 Dipole and Quadrupole Radiation, 655 16.12 Problems, 657 17 Radiation from Apertures 658 17.1 Field Equivalence Principle, 658 17.2 Magnetic Currents and Duality, 660 17.3 Radiation Fields from Magnetic Currents, 662 17.4 Radiation Fields from Apertures, 663 17.5 Huygens Source, 666 17.6 Directivity and Effective Area of Apertures, 668 17.7 Uniform Apertures, 670 17.8 Rectangular Apertures, 670 17.9 Circular Apertures, 672 17.10 Vector Diffraction Theory, 675 17.11 Extinction Theorem, 679 17.12 Vector Diffraction for Apertures, 681 17.13 Fresnel Diffraction, 682 17.14 Knife-Edge Diffraction, 686 17.15 Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, 694 17.16 Rayleigh-Sommerfeld Diffraction Theory, 700 17.17 Plane-Wave Spectrum Representation, 703 17.18 Fresnel Diffraction and Fourier Optics, 708 17.19 Problems, 719 18 Aperture Antennas 723 18.1 Open-Ended Waveguides, 723 18.2 Horn Antennas, 727 18.3 Horn Radiation Fields, 729 18.4 Horn Directivity, 734 18.5 Horn Design, 737 18.6 Microstrip Antennas, 740 18.7 Parabolic Reflector Antennas, 746 18.8 Gain and Beamwidth of Reflector Antennas, 748 18.9 Aperture-Field and Current-Distribution Methods, 751 18.10 Radiation Patterns of Reflector Antennas, 754 18.11 Dual-Reflector Antennas, 763 18.12 Lens Antennas, 766 19 Antenna Arrays 768 19.1 Antenna Arrays, 768 19.2 Translational Phase Shift, 768 19.3 Array Pattern Multiplication, 770 19.4 One-Dimensional Arrays, 780 19.5 Visible Region, 782 19.6 Grating Lobes, 784 19.7 Uniform Arrays, 786 19.8 Array Directivity, 790 19.9 Array Steering, 791 19.10 Array Beamwidth, 794 19.11 Problems, 796 20 Array Design Methods 799 20.1 Array Design Methods, 799 20.2 Schelkunoff's Zero Placement Method, 802 20.3 Fourier Series Method with Windowing, 804 20.4 Sector Beam Array Design, 805 20.5 Woodward-Lawson Frequency-Sampling Design, 809 20.6 Discretization of Continuous Line Sources, 814 20.7 Narrow-Beam Low-Sidelobe Designs, 818 20.8 Binomial Arrays, 822 20.9 Dolph-Chebyshev Arrays, 823 20.10 Taylor One-Parameter Source, 836 20.11 Prolate Array, 840 20.12 Taylor Line Source, 842 20.13 Villeneuve Arrays, 846 20.14 Multibeam Arrays, 847 20.15 Problems, 850 21 Currents on Linear Antennas 852 21.1 Hallen and Pocklington Integral Equations, 852 21.2 Delta-Gap, Frill Generator, and Plane-Wave Sources, 855 21.3 Solving Hallen's Equation, 856 21.4 Sinusoidal Current Approximation, 858 21.5 Reflecting and Center-Loaded Receiving Antennas, 859 21.6 King's Three-Term Approximation, 862 21.7 Evaluation of the Exact Kernel, 869 21.8 Method of Moments, 874 21.9 Delta-Function Basis, 877 21.10 Pulse Basis, 881 21.11 Triangular Basis, 886 21.12 NEC Sinusoidal Basis, 888 21.13 Hallen's Equationfor Arbitrary Incident Field, 891 21.14 Solving Pocklington's Equation, 896 21.15 Problems, 900 22 Coupled Antennas 902 22.1 Near Fields of Linear Antennas, 902 22.2 Self and Mutual Impedance, 905 22.3 Coupled Two-Element Arrays, 911 22.4 Arrays of Parallel Dipoles, 914 22.5 Yagi-Uda Antennas, 923 22.6 Hallen Equations for Coupled Antennas, 929 22.7 Problems, 936 A Appendices 938 A Physical Constants, 938 B Electromagnetic Frequency Bands, 939 C Vector Identities and Integral Theorems, 941 D Green's Functions, 944 E Coordinate Systems, 947 F Fresnel, Exponential, Sine, and Cosine Integrals, 949 G Gauss-Legendre Quadrature, 955 H Lorentz Transformations, 961 I MATLAB Functions, 969 References 974 // @ Index 1021