Electromagnetic wave structures within subauroral polarization streams

Parameters characterizing electromagnetic wave polarization

In this paper, generalizations of the Stokes parameters and alternative characterizations of three-dimensional (3D) time-varying electromagnetic fields is introduced. One of these characteristics is the normal of the polarization plane, which, in many cases of interest, is parallel (or antiparallel) to the direction of propagation. Others are the two spectral density Stokes parameters which des...

Full-wave simulations of electromagnetic cloaking structures.

Pendry et al. have reported electromagnetically anisotropic and inhomogeneous shells that, in theory, completely shield an interior structure of arbitrary size from electromagnetic fields without perturbing the external fields. Neither the coordinate transformation-based analytical formulation nor the supporting ray-tracing simulation indicate how material perturbations and full-wave effects mi...

Electromagnetic Wave Scattering in Random Layered Structures

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Periodic Porous Structures

We employ a homogenization procedure to describe the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a dielectric structure which is doubly-periodic in the X-Y plane and of arbitrary variation in the direction of propagation, Z. The fundamental cell is composed of an arbitrarily shaped pore filled with a dielectric and the host by another. Our analysis yields the structure of the electromagnetic fields...

Dual HF radar study of the subauroral polarization stream

The dual HF radars comprising the Tasman International Geophysical Environment Radar (TIGER) system often observe localized high-velocity F-region plasma flows (≥1500 m/s) in the midnight sector (20:00–02:00 MLT) at magnetic latitudes as low as 3=60 S. The flow channels exhibit large variability in the latitudinal extent and electric field strength, and are similar to the subauroral polarizatio...