Abstract
This paper treats the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the interior of a waveguide that is filled with a moving medium. The medium is assumed to be homogeneous, isotropic, and lossless, and to move with a constant velocity along the axis of the waveguide. The Maxwell-Minkowski equations for the electromagnetic fields are solved by means of a pair of vector potential functions similar to those frequently used for stationary media. The fields inside the waveguide are derived for both rectangular and cylindrical waveguides. The well-known cutoff phenomenon for a waveguide is found to be modified in an interesting way when the medium inside the waveguide is moving The results show that for a slowly moving medium (a medium for which n/sp, Beta/<1, where n is the index of refraction and /spl Beta/ is the velocity of the medium divided by the velocity of light in vacuum/, there are two critical frequencies, separating three frequency ranges in each of which there is a different type of propogation. For a high-speed medium (n/spl Beta/<1), it is found that there is no cutoff phenomenon at all, although there is one critical frequency separating two frequency ranges in which the propagation is different.
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