Reciprocity, Spatial Mapping and Time Reversal in Electromagnetics

• Main Authors: Altman, C. (Author), Suchy, K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Electrical engineering.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Electrical Engineering.

This long awaited second edition traces the original developments from the 1970s and brings them up to date with new and previously unpublished material to give this work a new lease of life for the early twenty-first century and readers new to the topic. In the winter of 1970-71, Colman Altman had...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: scope and aims
• 1. Wave propagation in a cold magnetoplasma
• 2. Eigenrnode reciprocity in k-space
• 3. Generalization of the scattering theorem
• 4. Reciprocity in media with sources
• 5. From scattering theorem to Lorentz reciprocity
• 6. Orthogonal mappings of fields and sources
• 7. Time reversal and reciprocity
•  8. Epilog: Time-reversal and reciprocity revisited
• Appendix A
• A.1 The spectral resolution of a matrix
• A.2 Application to gyrotropic tensors
• A.3 Fourth-order orthogonal projectors
•  Bibliography
• Notation and symbols
• Index
• Index—additions to 2nd edition.