Imaging of linear source distributions

Technical Report · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5605795

Miller, E K; Lager, D L; Okada, J T

An approach based on Prony's method is used to find the spatial poles of straight wires of varying length and radius from the far-field patterns. For the antenna case, poles having the largest residues are found near the feed region and antenna ends; smaller ones are found outside these regions. The poles are attributed to radiation from the exciting source and wire ends, due to charge acceleration, and from a slightly damped traveling wave. In the scattering case, the poles with the largest residues are located at the wire's ends for near-axial incidence and are again due to end radiation. By examination of the residue magnitudes as a function of wire radius, a correlation is found with radiation from the feed region of an infinite antenna and from the ends of a semi-infinite antenna. 19 figures.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5605795
• Report Number(s): UCRL-52822
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ANTENNAS
DATA
DATA FORMS
DISTRIBUTION
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
EQUIPMENT
GRAPHS
INFORMATION
MATHEMATICS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS
PRONY METHOD
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIATIONS
SCATTERING
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
THEORETICAL DATA
WIRES