Pulse-Beam Wavelets and Their Sources: Applications to Radar, Imaging and Communications

The objective of this basic research effort is to provide theoretical guidance to enable enhanced radar, imaging, and communication by designing novel emitters based on concepts from EM wavelet theory. The PI will undertake the theoretical and numerical descriptions of EM wavelet emission. This requires the description of realizable currents on various surfaces. These currents are a direct result of earlier work supported by AFOSR wherein the PJ examined Maxwells equations from a perspective of complex space-time and pulsed-beams. Using his extension of Dirac delta functions into this complex environment he was able to predict the creation of very narrow beams and it is these beams whose currents need to be realized. The AF would benefit from the ability to create very narrow MW beams from small sources and this research promises such devices.