Antenna patterns of nonsinusoidal waves with the time variation of a Gaussian pulse: Part IV

An experimental setup of a large-current radiator and a closed-loop sensor has recently been developed for the radiation and reception of nonsinusoidal electromagnetic waves. The time variation of the radiated waves approximately equals that of a Gaussian pulse. In this paper, oscillograms of antenna current and radiated nonsinusoidal pulses are presented. Magnetic flux lines representing the radiation of Gaussian pulses from a large-current sheet radiator of physical dimensions w x d x s are plotted in analogy to the plots first derived by Hertz in the late 1800's for the radiation of sinusoidal waves by a Hertzian dipole.