Title :
Near-field scattering by physical theory of diffraction and shooting and bouncing rays
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The problem of electromagnetic wave scattering is very important in defense applications. The research on this topic was mostly centered on far-field analysis: assume an incident plane wave, compute its scattered field due to the scatterer, and evaluate the radar cross section (RCS) of the scatterer. When the transmitting and receiving antennas are far from the scatterer, the incident wave can be approximated by a plane wave on every part of the target, the far-field analysis thus applies. However, in practical applications, there are many situations that the distance between the transmitting antenna and the scatterer is not large enough to treat the field arriving the scatterer as a plane wave. In these conditions the far-field analysis is not valid, and a near-field analysis is necessary. Most scattering papers on academic journals are related to the far-field analysis. The only near-field study that the author knows is the NcPTD code developed in DEMACO by Lee (1991). However, in this study only the physical theory of diffraction (PTD) is modified to deal with near-field scattering of convex scatterers. The method of shooting and bouncing rays (SBR), which is useful in evaluating the far-field RCS of concave targets, was not included. Also, the formulae are not explicit. This paper presents the PTD and SBR formulae for near-field scattering from a unified view.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic fields; electromagnetic wave scattering; physical theory of diffraction; radar cross-sections; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; DEMACO; NcPTD code; PTD; RCS; concave targets; convex scatterers; defense applications; electromagnetic wave scattering; far-field RCS; far-field analysis; incident plane wave; near-field analysis; near-field scattering; physical theory of diffraction; radar cross section; receiving antennas; scattered field; shooting and bouncing rays; transmitting antennas; Antennas and propagation; Current; Electromagnetic scattering; Missiles; Optical scattering; Physical optics; Physical theory of diffraction; Radar scattering; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1997. IEEE., 1997 Digest
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4178-3
DOI :
10.1109/APS.1997.631768