Wave Impedance Explained

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Wave impedance is a concept central to acoustics, mechanics, electromagnetics, and optics. In this video I describe wave impedance in terms of electromagnetics, as a ratio between the electric and the magnetic field of a traveling plane wave. If you know the electric field, amplitude, you know the magnetic field amplitude, and vice-versa.
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This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduate-level coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.
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@iffatzahra3624 3 жыл бұрын

This deserve more views

@JackFlashTech 4 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful for me. Thank you.

@user-xj1ib5rb8p 3 жыл бұрын

What a great lecture!! thanks

@alextrofimov7947 8 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much, this explanation is extremely well!

@stephenlashley6313 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation, it can be easily argued that the ratio or sequence alignment contains the most important information

@JordanEdmundsEECS 2 жыл бұрын

Yup! Exactly. Phase is only meaningful in relative terms.

@KemasRizkiF 4 жыл бұрын

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@JordanEdmundsEECS 4 жыл бұрын

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@moongimin8069 4 жыл бұрын

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@JordanEdmundsEECS 4 жыл бұрын

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@lauram.6285 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@kabandajamir9844 6 ай бұрын

So nice thanks sir

@mASTERtOMMYg 4 жыл бұрын

thank you!!!!

@peterwan9076 Жыл бұрын

It would be nice to see example on magnetic material. Few textbooks cover magnetic material properties. THX.

@BugMagnet Жыл бұрын

Very nice explanation. I have not found it this neatly derived anywhere so far. I have a question though. Considering an EM wave hitting a dielectric interface at an angle, the impedance is supposed to change dependant on the polarisation and incidence angle of the wave. I found a formula somewhere but when I plug in the brewster's angle and expect Eta(alpha_B) = Eta_0 for parallel polarisation, I get something weird instead. Since my formula does not seem to work, do you know one that does work?

@gayandesilva3180 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir !

@JordanEdmundsEECS 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@XAheli 3 жыл бұрын

Love and respect from India ❤️

@ashlynnundlall 4 жыл бұрын

Also sir which playlist does this fall under ?

@ashlynnundlall 4 жыл бұрын

Is their not an exponetial factor missing from e^(gamma*

@wyw4466 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Thank you for posting the video! Can you explain how does wave impedance changes between the near field and far field?

@JordanEdmundsEECS 3 жыл бұрын

Wave impedance is only really defined for the far-field (for transverse waves, as the ratio of the electric field to the magnetic field). In the near-field the waves aren't transverse (there's some component that doesn't propagate outward radially but sort of stays localized), so you can't really define a wave impedance in this region. You *can* define a capacitance and an inductance (by integrating all the E-fields and integrating all the H-fields) and these are usually more useful.

@pjaffeva Жыл бұрын

@@JordanEdmundsEECS In the case of a Gaussian beam, there are nearly spherical wavefronts on either side of the beam waist, where the wavefronts are nearly planar. How does wave impedance change along the axis of a Gaussian beam through these regions?

@Graham_Wideman 3 жыл бұрын

0:19 What is the meaning of the arrows from E to H and vice versa, and the narrative "a propagating electric field and a propagating magnetic field and these two switch back and forth in their oscillations as we move through space"? In what sense are they switching back and forth? Is this saying that E somehow changes places, or exchanges energy with H?

@JordanEdmundsEECS 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in a propagating electromagnetic wave the E-field and H-fields oscillate out of phase, you can indeed think of it like the energy sloshing back and forth between them.

@Graham_Wideman 3 жыл бұрын

@@JordanEdmundsEECS Thanks very much for your reply! I wondered if that was what you might mean. But when you say "E-field and H-fields oscillate out of phase", how does that relate to the plot of field intensity (exemplified by the top figure in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation), where they are shown (and the caption says explicitly) _in_ phase?

@Graham_Wideman 2 жыл бұрын

@@JordanEdmundsEECS I'm still interested in this question. This video seems to contain the misconception described here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8Cei8uDzODYdZs.html I think. My suspicion is increased by 4:45 where the phasor factors in the equation relating H0 and E0 are equal (same phase angle) and cancel. But maybe I've missed something.

@ThomasHaberkorn 2 жыл бұрын

the 377 Ohms are valid for the far field from a radiation source.. could you expand on what happens in the near field (distance from source smaller than wavelength/2Pi) ?

@gtheskater 2 жыл бұрын

for that you should probably use equations for transmission lines, smith diagram, etc

@jok6420 3 жыл бұрын

Wave impedance same as intrinsic impedance?

@Pkshah420 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jordan.....i just want to know...if in space nothing is there to obstruct the propagating em wave, why this impedance arises?....or it is just a misleading term😁?

@metalmolisher666 Жыл бұрын

Space itself has properties that conduct or betterresist electric and magnetic fields. Thats what µ and epsilon represent. Meaning space itself obstructs.

@praveshbarthwal2279 3 жыл бұрын

What is the physical significance of wave impedance?

@JordanEdmundsEECS 3 жыл бұрын

One physical significance is that it determines the speed of propagation of the wave. Higher wave impedance -> lower propagation speed. When you have physical discontinuities (like between air and water for example), wave impedance is what determines how much of the wave gets reflected and how much gets transmitted.