https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2000196
Electromagnetic pulses in Maxwell-Hopkinson dielectrics
Institut Henri Poincaré,
86 bis Route de Croissy, 78110 Le Vésinet, France
Corresponding author: pierre.hillion@wanadoo.fr
Received:
25
August
1999
Revised:
26
November
1999
Accepted:
26
November
1999
Published online: 15 January 2000
A pulse is solution of a boundary-initial value problem for the wave equation.We investigate the propagation in the z-direction of a Maxwell-Hopkinson dielectric of three kinds of pulses launched from the z = 0 plane at some time: harmonic plane wave, Bessel wave, distortion-free progressing wave. We prove that at high frequency, and as soon as the transient state has died out, these pulses propagate with an exponential attenuation factor in the direction of propagation.
PACS: 03.50.De – Classical electromagnetism, Maxwell equations / 41.20.Jb – Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation
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