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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 5, May 2000

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On the Goubau-Schwering Beam Waveguide Using a Modified Paraxial Approximation

Karl E. Lonngren

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Abstract:

In this paper, we demonstrate that the beam waveguide can be easily postulated by using a modified version of the paraxial approximation.

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