Chapter 3

Influence of Medium Plane Boundaries on Electromagnetic Transients

The next most complex stage of a transient electromagnetic problem occurs when the influence of medium boundaries must be taken into account. Such influence is of significant importance in quantum electronics and optical communications technology because of optical pulse generation, amplification, compression, reshaping and filtering, as well as four-wave mixing [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. All of these studies concern ultrafast electromagnetic transients in complex media, and their solution in the time domain is the subject of much research.

As a rule, an exact consideration of electromagnetic processes in media with arbitrary time-varying parameters is possible only in ...

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