The purpose of the Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics Conference series is to focus on advanced technologies for the generation, radiation and detection of ultra-wideband short pulse signals, taking into account their propagation, scattering from and coupling to targets of interest; to report on developments in supporting mathematical and numerical methods; and to describe current and potential future applications of the technology. The fifth such Conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2000 as part of EUROEM 2000 and the proceedings in this volume report on newly emerging ideas and develop recurrent themes of earlier meetings. The topics include electromagnetic theory and scattering theory (including papers presented at a special session on fundamental solutions of Maxwell's equations); ultra-wideband radar systems; ultra-wideband and transient antennas; pulsed power generation and propagation; ultra-wideband polarimetry; ultra-wideband and transient metrology; detection and identification studies; RF interactions and chaotic effects; and biological effects.
The fifth Conference on Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics was held in Scotland from 30 May to 2 June 2000 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. It formed part of the EUROEM 2000 International Conference under the chairmanship of David Parkes (DERA, Malvern) and Paul Smith (University of Dundee). It continued the series of international conferences that were held first at the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York in 1992 and 1994, then in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1996 (as part of AMEREM 96) and more recently in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1998 (as part of EUROEM 98). The purpose of these meetings is to focus on advanced technologies for the generation, radiation and detection of ultra-wideband short pulse signals, taking into account their propagation, scattering from and coupling to targets of interest; to report on developments in supporting mathematical and numerical methods; and to describe current and potential future applications of the technology."
Fundamental Solutions of Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Theory. From Maxwell to Einstein;
J. v. Bladel. Analytical Methods for Antenna Analysis and Synthesis in the Time Domain;
A. Shlivinski, E. Heyman. Complex-Source-Point Narrow-Waisted Ray-Like Gaussian Beams for Frequency and Time Domain Radiation and Scattering;
L. Felsen, V. Galdi. Diffraction by Arrays of Complex Source Point Beams;
E. Jull, H. Cheong. Application of Concepts of Advanced Mathematics and Physics to the Maxwell Equations;
C. Baum. Surface Discharge Cellular Automaton Model;
H. Hayakawa, et al. Green's Functions for Sheet Current Placed Over Cylindrical Metal Surface;
A. Svezhentsev, G. Vandenbosch. UWB Analysis of EM Fields in Complex Laminates: A Multiresolution Homogenization Approach;
V. Lomakin, et al. Time Domain Exact Solution of Problem of UWB Pulse Diffraction on a Conducting Half-Plane;
E. Galstjan. Spherical Wave Expansion of the Time Domain Free-Space Dyadic Green's Function;
S. Alp Azizoglu, et al. On the Localization of Electromagnetic Energy;
H. Schantz. On Superliminal Photonic Tunnelling;
G. Nimtz, et al. Transient Electromagnetic Field of a Vertical Magnetic Dipole on a Two-Layer Conducting Earth;
O. Seida, et al. Time-Domain Study of Transient Fields for a Thin Circular Loop Antenna;
S. Bishay, G. Sami. Generalized TEM, E and H Modes;
A. Stone, C. Baum. Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by Smooth Imperfectly Conductive Cylindrical Obstacle;
Y. Tuchkin. A Set of Exact Explicit Solutions in Time Domain For UWB Electromagnetic Signals in Waveguide;
O. Tretyakov. Analytical Regularization Method for Wave Diffraction by Bowl-shaped Screen of Revolution;
Y. Tuchkin. Transient Excitation of a Layered Dielectric Medium by a Pulsed Electric Dipole: Spectral Constituents;
A. Tijhuis, A. Rubio Bretones. Transient Excitation of a Layered Dielectric Medium by a Pulsed Electric Dipole: Spectral Representation;
A. Tijhuis, A. Rubio Bretones. Radar Systems. A New Ultra Wideband, Short Pulse, Radar System for Mine Detection;
G. Gallais, et al. Ultra-Wideband Ground Penetrating Impulse Radar;
A. Yarovoy, et al. Object Shape Reconstruction at Small Base Ultrawideband Radar;
V. Koshelev, et al. UWB Subsurface Radar with Antenna Array for Imaging of Internal Structure of Concrete Structural Elements;
A. Boryssenko, et al. Optimal Short Pulse UWB Radar Signal Detection;
I. Immoreev, J. Taylor. Experimental Results from an Ultra Wideband Precision Geolocation System;
R. Fontana. Recent Applications of Ultra Wideband Radar and Communications Systems;
R. Fontana. A Low Power, Ultra-Wideband Rader Testbed;
T. Payment. Ultra-Wideband Principles for Surface Penetrating Radar;
J. Sachs, et al. Ray Tracing Assessment of Antenna Arrays and Subsurface Propagation for GPR Systems;
S. Pennock, M. Redfern. Ground Penetrating Radar System for Locating Buried Utilities;
S. Pennock, M. Redfern. Cost Efficient Surface Penetrating Radar Device for Humanitarian Demining;
J. Ratcliffe, et al. Some Problems of GPR soft- and hardware improving in mine detection and classification task;
I. Astanin, et al. Antennas. Time-Domain Simulation Technique for Antenna Transient Radiation, Reception and Scattering;
A. Boryssenko, et al. A Collapsible Impulse Radiating Antenna;
L. Bowen, et al. High-Power Ultrawideband Radiation for Radar Application;
V. Koshelev. Broadband Operation of Tapered Inset Dielectric Guide and Bowtie Slot Antennas;
A. Hannigan, et al. A Unified Kinematic Theory of Transient Arrays;
A. Shlivinski, E. Heyman. Powerful Sources of UWB Pulsed Coherent Signals;
A. Kardo-Sysoev, et al. Ultrawideband Solid State Pulsed Antenna Array;
A. Kardo-Sysoev, et al. Admittance of Bent TEM Waveguides in a CID Medium;
C. Baum. Optimization of the Feed Impedance for an Arbitrary Crossed-Feed-Arm Impulse Radiating Antenna;
S. Tyo. Transient Fields of Offset Reflector;
S. Skulkin, V. Turchin. A New Broad Band 2D Antenna for Ultra-Wide-Band Applications;
V. Mallepeyre, et al. Time Domain Array Design;
H. Schantz. Recent Developments in Ultra-Wideband Sources and Antennas;
W. Prather, et al. Ultra-Wideband Sparse Array Imaging Radar;
G. Crips, et al. Cross-Field Characterization of Dipole Radiation in Fresnel Zone;
M. Badic, M. Marinescu. Parallel Charging of Marx Generators for High Pulse Repetition Rates;
J. Lehr, C. Baum. Pulsed Power. Special Lecture: Live Fire Test and Evaluation and the RF Vulnerability Testing Mission;
J. O'Bryon, R. Carter. Compact HPM and UWB Sources using Explosives &endash; The Potential of Future Non-lethal Warhead Systems;
T. Ehlen, et al. Sub-nanosecond Gas Breakdown Phenomena in the Voltage Regime Below 15 kV;
H. Krompholz, et al. High-Power, High-PRF Subnanosecond Modulator Based on a Nanosecond All-Solid-State Driver and a Gas Gap Pulse Sharper;
M. Yalandin, et al. Upgrading of the Efficiency of Small-Sized Subnanosecond Modulators;
M. Yalandin, et al. Characteristics of Trap-Filled GaAs Photoconductive Switches used in High Gain Pulsed Power Applications;
N. Islam, et al. Project of Semiconductor High-Power High-Repetition Rate Compact Current/UWB Pulse Generator;
E. Galstjan, L. Kazanskiv. High Power Subnanosecond Generator for UWB Radar;
V. Prokhorenko, A. Boryssenko. Electromagnetic Noise Emission of Industrial Pulse Power Equipment for Material Treatment;
F. Luhn, et al. Compact Solid State Pulse Modulators for High Power Microwave Applications;
M. Gaudreau, et al. UWB Polarimetry. An Introduction to Polarisation Effects in Wave Scattering and their Application in Target Scattering;
W. Boerner, S. Cloude.Unipolarized currents for Antenna Polarization Control;
C. Baum. Polarimetric Radar Interferometry: A New Sensor for Vehicle Based Mine Detection;
S. Cloude, C. Thornhill. Modelling of the Air-ground Interface for UWB Radar Applications;
Y. Lostanlen, et al. Ultra-Wideband Polarimetric Boreholde Radar;
M. Sato, S. Liu. Buried Mine Detection by Polarimetric Radar Interferometry;
L. Saques, et al. UWB & Transient Metrology. An Optical Approach to Determine the Statistical Features of the Field Distribution in Mode Stirred Reverberation Chamber;
S. Baranowki, et al. Influence of Variations in the Spectral Function to Time Domain Measurements;
H. Garbe. Influence of the Precursor Fields on Ultrashort Pulse Measurements;
K. Oughstun, H. Xiao. Dihedral Reflector Calibration for UWB Radar Systems;
A. Lambert, P. Smith. Detection, Target Identification and Signal Processing. Image Reconstruction of the Subsurface Object Cross-Section from the Angle Spectrum of Scattered Field;
A. Vertiy, et al. Optimal Acoustic Measurements;
M. Cheney, et al. Parsimony in Signature-Based Target Identification;
C. Baum. Buried Object Identification with an Optimisation of the TLS Prony Algorithm;
Y. Lostanlen, et al. Model Problems of Pulse Sensing;
L. Velychko, et al. Simulation of the Transient Response of Objects Buried in Dispersive Media;
M. Hernádex-López, et al. Electromagnetic Transient Modelling using Dynamic Adaptive Frequency Sampling;
C. Tham, et al. The Time Domain Numerical Calculation of an Integro-Differential Equation for Ultrashort Electromagnetic Pulse Propagation in Layered Media;
I. Sherbatko, et al. Marching on in Anything: Solving Electromagnetic Field Equations with a Varying Physical Parameter;
A. Tijhuis, P. Zwamborn. Correlation of Antenna Measurements Using the Oversampled Gabor Transform;
B. Fourestié, Z. Altman. On a Rational Model Interpolation Technique of Ultra-Wideband Signals;
N. Younan, et al. Propagation. Full-Wave Solution of the Propagation of Generally Shaped Impulses and Wide Band Application in Anisotropic Plasmas;
O. Ferencz, C. Ferencz. Asymptotic Description of Ultrawideband, Ultrashort Pulsed Electromagnetic Beam Field Propagation in Dispersive, Attenuative Medium;
K. Oughstun. Dispersion Reduction in a Coaxial Transmission Line Bend by a Layered Approximation of a Graded Dielectric Lens;
W. Bigelow, et al. RF Interactions and Chaos. Optimal Input Signals for Driving Nonlinear Electronic Systems into Chaos;
S. Booker, et al. In-band Chaos in Commercial Electronic Systems;
S. Booker, et al. An Application of Chaos Theory to the High Frequency RCS Prediction of Engine Ducts;
A. MacKay. Ray Splitting and Chaos in Electromagnetic Resonators;
R. Blumel. Biological Effects. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio-Frequency (RF) Bioeffects Research at DERA Porton Down;
S. Holden, et al. Index of Authors.