Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Abstract
An equivalent nonuniform transmission line model for electromagnetic radiation in free space is developed. By properly defining a voltage and a current associated with the transverse component of the mode fields, a kind of telegrapher’s equation is derived for each spherical harmonic mode in frequency domain. Based on the equivalent distribution inductance and capacitance, the local characteristic impedance and phase velocity are derived. For each spherical mode, a cutoff spherical surface and an associated cutoff radius are introduced to separate the space into an evanescent region and a propagating region. A spherical mode field decays approximately exponentially in the evanescent region and experience local reflection in the propagating region. The proposed model may provide an intuitive illustration for the radiation process in free space.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key R&D Program of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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