Electromagnetic field of transient signals above a dielectric layer (Q1765414)

The author presents a rigorous theoretical investigation for the electromagnetic field generated by a vertical electric dipole (Hertz vector) placed above an atmospheric surface duct. The polarization of the primary source, whose moment varies arbitrarily in time, is chosen in such a way that it allows the exact determination of the electric field strength at some field point above the duct layer. The application of the Laplace transformation in time domain and two-dimensional Fourier transformation in the horizontal coordinates \(x\) and \(y\) yields one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the altitude coordinate \(z\) for the Fourier-transformed field, which leads to an integral representation for the solution of the wave equation. Saddle point and residue methods are then employed for the evaluation of this integral representation.