Spherical lens as a launcher of electromagnetic missiles
- 15 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 62 (10) , 4036-4040
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.339115
Abstract
A uniform dielectric sphere, under transient excitation by a point source, is found to be capable of launching an electromagnetic missile, i.e., there is a direction where the decay of the total energy transmitted to a receiver is slower than r−2. The conditions for the presence of an electromagnetic missile have a natural interpretation, which in turn leads to a classification of electromagnetic missiles according to the singularities of differentiable maps in two dimensions.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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