UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
College of EngineeringDepartment of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

 

EECS 117B - Spring 1997
T. K. Gustafson

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves II
Course Outline

Chapter, Topics and Sections

1. REVIEW
Review of Maxwell's eqtns., waves, and Poyntings theorem
and forces (3.6-3.13)
Boundary conditions (3.14), Retarded potentials, (3.19-3.21)

2. WAVEGUIDES
General waveguide equations and examples (8.1-8.5)
Planar transmission lines, strip lines (8.6),
Planar dielectric waveguide (14.8)
Rectangular waveguides (8.7-8.8),
Rectangular dielectric waveguides for integrated optics (9.2,14.7)
Circular waveguides, Optical fiber modes (8.9-8.11),(14.9)
Dispersion of signals in waveguides (8.16), (14.11)
Special Guides (9.6-9.10), active waveguides
Floquet's theorem for periodic waveguides

3. INTRODUCTION TO MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL NETWORKS
Review of Network parameters and their measurement (11.1-11.5)
Scattering parameter applications (11.7-11.10)
Frequency characteristics of waveguide networks (11.11-11.14),
Application of quasi-static techniques (11.15)

4. RESONATOR STRUCTURES
Natural oscillations in distributed systems. Natural
frequencies, spatial modes (10.1-10.3),(3.12-3.13)
Rectangular, cylindrical and strip resonators (10.4-10.6)
Small gap cavities, coupling, measurement of Q,
cavity perturbations (10.7-10.12) Dielectric and plane active optical resonators (10.13)

MIDTERM EXAM

5. RADIATION APPLICATIONS The biconial, electric dipole, magnetic dipole antennas,
(12.1-12.4)
Half wave dipole, antenna gain, radiation resistance,
reciprocity and the radar equation

SPRING BREAK


Travelling wave antenna, other antenna configurations
(12.9-12.11)
Radiation from apertures, diffraction,
Huygen's integral (12.13/-12.14)
Slot antenna, lenses and applications to optics
(12.16-12.17)
Arrays of elements (12.18-12.23)
Integrated infrared and submillimeter antennas (12.24)

6. ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Basic dielectric and magnetic materials (13.1-13.7)
Anistropic dielectrics
optical modulation (13.8-13.11)
Faraday rotation, ferrite devices,
optical isolators (13.12-13.15)
Electromagnetic forces
permitivity of a plasma (13.16)

7. NUMERICAL METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS
Crank-Nicholson, Split-step, relaxation,
other techniques applied to numerically
treat electro-magnetic propagational problems,
(references will be given)
Numerical solutions to specific problems
Review