Late-time target response measured with terahertz impulse ranging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1518-1524

  Alan Cheville, R ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Inverse problems; Time domain measurements

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTOELECTRONIC RANGING SYSTEM; TERAHERTZ IMPULSE RANGING; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031257030     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.633860     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. D. A. VechinskyS. M Rao, and T. K. Sarkar, "Transient scattering from three-dimensional arbitrarily shaped dielectric bodies," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, vol. 11, pp. 1458-1470, 1994.
2. E. K. Miller and J. A. Landt"Direct time-domain techniques for transient radiation and scattering from wires," Proc. IEEE, vol. 68, pp. 1396-1423, Nov. 1980.
3. H. C. StriforsG. C. Gaunnard, B. Brusmark, and S. Abrahamson, "Transient interactions of an EM pulse with an dielectric spherical shell," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 42, pp. 453-162, Apr. 1994.
4. M. Morgan"Ultrawideband impulse scattering measurements," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 42, pp. 840-846, June 1994.
5. L. Carinin Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, H. Bertoni, Ed. New York: Plenum, 1993, pp. 37-9.
6. W. M. RobertsonG. V. Kopcsay, and G. Arjavalingam, "Picosecond time-domain electromagnetic scattering from conducting cylinders," IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett., vol. 1, pp. 379-381, Dec. 1991.
7. A. RahmanD. Kralj, L. Carin, M. R. Melloch, and J. M. Woodall, "Photoconductively switched antennas for measuring target resonances," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 64, pp. 2178-2180, 1994.
8. R. A. Cheville and D. Grischkowsky"Time domain THz impulse ranging studies," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 67, pp. 1960-1962, 1995.
9. M. van Exter and D. Grischkowsky"Characterization of an optoelectronic TeraHz beam system," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 38, pp. 1684-1691, Nov. 1990.
10. D. GrischkowskyS. Keiding, M. van Exter, and Ch. Fattinger, "Farinfrared time-domain spectroscopy with terahertz beams of dielectrics and semiconductors," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 7, pp. 2006-2015, 1990.
11. M. van ExterCh. Fattinger, and D. Grischkowsky, "Terahertz timedomain spectroscopy of water vapor," Opt. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 1128-1130, 1989.
12. P. Uhd Jepsen and S. R. Keiding"Radiation patterns from lens-coupled terahertz antennas," Opt. Lett., vol. 20, pp. 807-809, 1995.
13. M. N. Afsar and K. J. Button"Millimeter-wave dielectric properties of materials," in Infrared and Millimeter Waves. New York: Academic, 1984, vol. 12.
14. R. F. HarringtonTime Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
15. D. E. BarrickRadar Cross Section Handbook, G. T. Ruck, Ed. New York: Plenum, 1970, vol. 1.
16. J. Rheinstein"Backscatter from spheres: A short pulse view," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. AP-16, pp. 89-97, Jan. 1968.
17. H. Inada"Backscattered short pulse response of surface waves from dielectric spheres," Appl Opt., vol. 13, pp. 1928-1933, 1974.
18. M. S. Aly and T. T. Y. Wong"Scattering of a transient electromagnetic wave by a dielectric sphere," Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., vol. 138, pt. H, pp. 192-198, Apr. 1991.
19. C. R. Schumacher"Electrodynamic similitude and physical scale modeling of nondispersive targets," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 67, pp. 2616-2625, 1987.