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Excitation Theory for Space-Dispersive Active Media Waveguides

Classical Physics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

A unified electrodynamic approach to the guided-wave excitation theory is generalized to the waveguiding structures containing a hypothetical space-dispersive medium with drifting charge carriers possessing simultaneously elastic, piezoelectric and magnetic properties. Substantial features of our electrodynamic approach are: (i) the allowance for medium losses and (ii) the separation of potential fields peculiar to the slow quasi-static waves. It is shown that the orthogonal complementary fields appearing inside the external source region are just associated with a contribution of the potential fields inherent in exciting sources. Taking account of medium losses converts the usual orthogonality relation into a novel form called the quasi-orthogonality relation. It is found that the separation of potential fields reveals the fine structure of interaction between the exciting sources and mode eigenfields: in addition to the exciting currents interacting with the curl fields, the exciting charges and the double charge (surface dipole) layers appear to interact with the quasi-static potentials and the displacement currents, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.physics/9908057,
  title  = {Excitation Theory for Space-Dispersive Active Media Waveguides},
  author = {A. A. Barybin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9908057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX 2.09, 28 pages with mathematical appendix

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