ABSTRACT
Popular t-shirts advertising Maxwell’s equations do not go beyond merely stating them. In this book, we enter into a little more depth and solve these equations for analyzing various electromagnetic (EM) and optical problems, e.g., diffraction gratings, radiation and scattering from dielectric objects, photorefractive materials, metamaterials, and chiral materials. The emphasis on žnding the solutions in our text concerns the use of Fourier and state variable analyses, and beam propagation methods. In this chapter, we brie—y review some mathematical techniques pertinent to the analyses presented in later chapters.
