Research Catalog

Title

Microwave and optical waveguides / Nigel J. Cronin.

Author

Cronin, Nigel J.

Publication

Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Institute of Physics (Great Britain)

Description

xii, 119 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Optical wave guides > Mathematics
• Wave guides > Mathematics
• Microwaves

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 115) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. 1.1. What is a waveguide? 1.2. Why do we need waveguides? 1.3. Why are there many types of waveguide? -- 2. Transmission Lines. 2.1. The parallel-wire transmission line. 2.2. The line equations. 2.3. Characteristic impedance. 2.4. Characteristic impedance in terms of fields. 2.5. The terminated transmission line. 2.6. The input impedance of a terminated line. 2.7. The parallel-plate transmission line. 2.8. Characteristic impedance of parallel-plate line. 2.9. Microstrip. 2.10. Coaxial cable. 2.11. Dispersion and velocities of propagation. 2.12. Dispersion in transmission lines -- 3. Rectangular Waveguides. 3.1. Plane-wave analysis of rectangular waveguide. 3.2. The magnetic field. 3.3. Waveguide modes as solutions of the wave equation. 3.4. Transverse electric modes. 3.5. Waveguide mode designation. 3.6. Waveguide cut-off conditions. 3.7. Single-moded waveguide. 3.8. The rest of the waveguide modes. 3.9. Transverse magnetic modes. 3.10. Current flow in the waveguide walls.
• 3.11. Power flow along the guide. 3.12. Waveguide losses. 3.13. Dispersion in rectangular waveguide -- 4. The Planar Dielectric Waveguide. 4.1. Total internal reflection. 4.2. Transverse phase resonance, the eigenvalue equation. 4.3. Graphical solutions of the eigenvalue equation. 4.4. Field patterns. 4.5. Energy distribution. 4.6. The asymmetric planar dielectric waveguide. 4.7. Graphical solution of the asymmetric eigenvalue equation. 4.8. Field patterns in the asymmetric guide. 4.9. Solutions of the wave equation. 4.10. Radiation modes. 4.11. Excitation of the waveguide. 4.12. Dispersion in planar dielectric waveguides -- 5. Circular Metal Pipe Waveguide. 5.1. Relationships between field components. 5.2. Circular metal pipe waveguide. 5.3. Transverse magnetic modes. 5.4. The eigenvalue equation, cut-off conditions. 5.5. Transverse electric modes. 5.6. Dispersion. 5.7. Waveguides of arbitrary shape -- 6. Circular Dielectric Waveguides, the Optical Fibre. 6.1. Waveguide modes in the optical fibre.
• 6.2. Exact solution of the eigenvalue equations: outline (Hondros and Debye 1910). 6.3. Weakly guiding fibres - linearly polarized (LP) modes. 6.4. Cut-off conditions in linearly polarized modes. 6.5. Cut-off conditions in the fundamental LP[subscript 01] mode. 6.6. Field patterns in linearly polarized modes. 6.7. Field patterns in the LP[subscript 01] mode. 6.8. LP modes as a sum of exact solutions. 6.9. Normalized waveguide parameters. 6.10. Energy distribution in the weakly guiding fibre. 6.11. Dispersion and group velocity -- Appendix 1: Bessel Functions.

ISBN

• 0750302151 (hbk)
• 075030216X (pbk)

LCCN

gb 95019952

OCLC

• 33242993
• ocm33242993

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries