Nondiffracting Waves Criteria for Designing X-wave Launchers

Walter Fuscaldo (1, 2) , Santi C. Pavone (3) , Davide Comite (1) , Guido Valerio (4) , Matteo Albani (3) , Mauro Ettorre (2) , Alessandro Galli (1)

1 DIET - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni [Roma]
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
3 DIISM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'informazione e scienze matematiche [Siena]
4 L2E - Laboratoire d'Electronique et Electromagnétisme

In this work, useful criteria for dimensioning X-wave launchers are provided based on the definition of an original metric of confinement. The mathematical expressions for evaluating the nondiffractive features of a spectrally-flat X-wave are first reviewed. Then, a novel criterion for dimensioning the aperture size of an X-wave launcher is proposed to obtain a pulse which is confined over both the transverse and the propagating axes. Such an analysis may be particularly useful for the development of X-wave launchers especially in the microwave/millimeter-wave range, where the available fractional bandwidths are subjected to severe technological constraints.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics

Walter Fuscaldo, Santi C. Pavone, Davide Comite, Guido Valerio, Matteo Albani, et al.. Nondiffracting Waves Criteria for Designing X-wave Launchers. International Symposium of IEEE-Antennas-and-Propagation-Society / USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Jul 2017, San Diego, CA, United States. ⟨hal-01737242⟩