Complex Permittivity of Propagating Media

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction

• Basic Mechanisms of the Propagating Material

• Permittivity of Permanent Polar Molecules

• Induced Dipole Moments

• Induced Dipole Response Function, G(?>)

• Frequency Character of the Permittivity

• Kramers-Kronig Relations for Induced Moments

• Arbitrary Time Stimulus

• Conduction Electron Permittivity

• Conductivity Response Function

• Permittivity of Plasma Oscillations

• Permittivity Summary

• Empirical Permittivity

• Theory Applied to Empirical Permittivity

• Dispersion of a Signal Propagating through a Medium with Complex Permittivity

• Endnotes

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