The radiation operator.

The concept of the radiation operator is introduced to assist in the analysis of various problems involving sources and their radiation fields. It gives the field outside the source region as operating on the field of a point source. Because there is a simple connection between the radiation vector...

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Publié dans:	IEEE Transactions on antennas and propagation 48, 11 (2000).
Auteur principal:	Lindell, I.V
Format:	Article
Langue:	English
Sujets:	Antenna radiation pattern. Current element. Delta function source. Far-field zone. Multipole expansion theory. Operational rules. Point source. Polarization. Radiation fields. Radiation operator. Radiation vector. Recursion-formula derivation. Source region. Spherical harmonic eigenfunctions.