Electromagnetic Missiles Generated by Linear and Surface Current Distributions

Abstract

Electromagnetic(EM) missile sources have so far been limited to the cases where the spatial distribution of current density is either a straight line or a circular disk or a rectangle. It may then be questioned whether an arbitrary linear current distribution or an arbitrary surface current distribution can be used as a launcher of the EM missiles. In this paper the above question is answered, and we have demonstrated that an arbitrary linear or an arbitrary surface current distribution of finite size has the ability to launch an EM missile, i. e. to realize slow decrease of electromagnetic energy on any axis so long as the axis has an intersection point with the source region, and in the neighborhood of this point the spatial distributions of the current are locally flat and perpendicular to the axis.