Hernández-Figueroa / Zamboni-Rached / Recami Localized Waves

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-16897-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering

The first book on Localized Waves--a subject of phenomenalworldwide research with important applications from securecommunications to medicine
Localized waves--also known as non-diffractivewaves--are beams and pulses capable of resisting diffractionand dispersion over long distances even in non-guiding media.Predicted to exist in the early 1970s and obtained theoreticallyand experimentally as solutions to the wave equations starting in1992, localized waves now garner intense worldwide research withapplications in all fields where a role is played by a waveequation, from electromagnetism to acoustics and quantum physics.In the electromagnetics areas, they are paving the way, forinstance, to ubiquitous secure communications in the range ofmillimeter waves, terahertz frequencies, and optics. At last, thelocalized waves with an envelope at rest are expected to haveimportant applications especially in medicine.
Localized Waves brings together the world's most productiveresearchers in the field to offer a well-balanced presentation oftheory and experiments in this new and exciting subject. Composedof thirteen chapters, this dynamic volume:
* Presents a thorough review of the theoretical foundation andhistorical aspects of localized waves
* Explores the interconnections of the subject with othertechnologies and scientific areas
* Analyzes the effect of arbitrary anisotropies on bothcontinuous-wave and pulsed non-diffracting fields
* Describes the physical nature and experimental implementation oflocalized waves
* Provides a general overview of wave localization, for example inphotonic crystals, which have received increasing attention inrecent years
Localized Waves is the first book to cover this emerging topic,making it an indispensable resource in particular for researchersin electromagnetics, acoustics, fundamental physics, and free-spacecommunications, while also serving as a requisite text for graduatestudents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hernández-Figueroa, Hugo E.

Zamboni-Rached, Michel

Recami, Erasmo

Über Autor(innen)

Hugo E. HernÁNdez-Figueroa, PhD, is a Full Professor inthe School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the StateUniversity of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is a Senior Member ofthe IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of LightwaveTechnology, and a Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEETransactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. His researchinterests concentrate on a wide variety of wave electromagneticsphenomena and applications mainly in photonics and microwaves.
Michel Zamboni-Rached, PhD, is a Professor in the Centro deCi?ncias Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil.His research interests are electromagnetic field theory, theory andapplications of localized waves (in electromagnetism, acoustics,and wave mechanics), optics, optical communications, and sometopics in theoretical physics.
Erasmo Recami, PhD, has been a Professor of Physics (currentlyat Bergamo State University, Italy) for the past forty years. Hiscurrent research includes the structure of leptons, tunnelingtimes, the application of the GR methods to strong interactions,extended SR, and, in particular, the superluminal group velocitiesassociated with evanescent waves and with the localized solutionsto Maxwell's equations.