Abstract
A survey of the theory of propagation of transient transverse electromagnetic waves in temporally dispersive, bi-isotropic slabs is given, and a novel wave splitting, which completely separates right-going and left-going waves in the dispersive medium, is proposed. The new approach leads to a simple scattering relation in terms of wave propagators and single-interface scattering operators only. These temporal integral operators are related to the four time-dependent susceptibility kernels of the medium through non-linear Volterra equations of the second kind. In a subsequent paper, the corresponding inverse scattering problem is addressed on the basis of the new results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-21 |
| Journal | Wave Motion |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering