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Transverse electric and transverse magnetic pulsed-beam decomposition of time-dependent aperture fields
Timor Melamed1, Dor Abuhasira, David Dayan
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. timormel@ee.bgu.ac.il
Abstract:
The present contribution is concerned with applying beam-type expansion to a planar aperture time-dependent (TD) electromagnetic field in which the propagating elements, the electromagnetic pulsed-beams, are a priori decomposed into transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) field polarizations. The propagating field is described as a discrete superposition of tilted, shifted, and delayed TE and TM electromagnetic pulsed-beam propagators over the frame spectral lattice. These waveobjects are evaluated by using TD plane-wave spectral representations. Explicit asymptotic expressions for electromagnetic isodiffracting pulsed-quadratic beam propagators are presented, as well as a numerical example.
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