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Capolino & Felsen 2003
Capolino, F. and Felsen, L.B. (2003). Short-pulse radiation by a sequentially excited semi-infinite periodic planar array of dipoles. Radio Science 38: doi: 10.1029/2001RS002588. issn: 0048-6604.

This paper deals with the fourth in a sequence of canonical problems aimed toward an understanding of the time domain (TD) behavior of wideband-excited sequentially pulsed planar periodic finite arrays of dipoles, which play an important role in a variety of practical applications. The present investigation of sequentially pulsed semi-infinite planar dipole arrays extends our previous studies of sequentially pulsed infinite and semi-infinite line dipole arrays and of infinite planar dipole arrays. The discrete element-by-element radiations are converted collectively to radiations from a series of Floquet wave (FW)-modulated truncated smooth equivalent aperture distributions, and to corresponding FW-modulated edge diffraction. After a summary of necessary results from the earlier studies, emphasis is placed on the new truncation-induced TD results and interpretations, which are extracted via phenomenology-matched high-frequency asymptotics from rigorous frequency and time domain formulations parameterized in terms of the dispersive FW instantaneous frequencies and wave numbers. As in our previous studies, the outcome is a numerically efficient, physically incisive algorithm whose accuracy is verified preliminarily by application to a pulsed planar strip array of dipoles.

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Keywords
Electromagnetics, Antenna arrays, Electromagnetics, Transient and time domain, Electromagnetics, Scattering and diffraction
Journal
Radio Science
Publisher
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