Electromagnetic Waves

4.0 credits

TEM waves in transmission line structures, transient and steady state solutions. Applications in digital circuits, RF equipment, and optical communication networks. Maxwell's equations and wave equation in homogeneous media. Plane waves in homogenous loss-less and low-loss media. Linear and circular polarization. Wave propagation in lossy/conducting media and skin effect. Dipole radiation, transceiver and receiver antennas, and antenna arrays. Satellite communications and fiber optical communications. Quantum communications.