ELECTROMAGNETIC MISSILES GENERATED BY LINEAR AND SURFACE CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS

Electromagnetic (EM) missile sources have so far been limited to the c ases where the spatial distribution of current density is either a str aight line or a circular disk or a rectangle. It may then be questione d whether an arbitrary linear current distribution or an arbitrary sur face current distribution can be used as a launcher of the EM missiles . In this paper the above question is answered, and we have demonstrat ed that an arbitrary linear or an arbitrary surface current distributi on of finite size has the ability to launch an EM missile, i.e. to rea lize slow decrease of electromagnetic energy on any axis so long as th e axis has an intersection point with the source region, and in the ne ighborhood of this point the spatial distributions of the current are locally flat and Perpendicular to the axis.