Time-domain Optics of Ultrashort Waveforms

The behaviour of very short electromagnetic pulses as they travel in dispersive media is impossible to analyse and model by the usual Fourier methods. Shvartsburg assembles here for the first time alternative mathematical methods and tools to accomplish these tasks. Such pulses are of great practical interest and importance to laser physicists and telecommunications engineers among others.

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Time domain transient electrodynamics of dispersive and glossy media form the subject of this book. This topic is associated with the unusual interactions between ultra-short transient signals and these media. Techniques based on such interactions find use in materials analysis, fractal communication, and energy transfer through dispersive and absorbing media, Traditional analytical techniques (Fourier based) break down in the extreme conditions encountered in these situations; Shvartsburg gives here other successful techniques and methods to allow scientists to analyse and model this behaviour.