Field Theory of Guided Waves

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Summary: Complete & extensive work on rf technology
Review: After you read this book you will think that Jackson's 'Classical Electrodynamic' is brief and easy. I was required to learn for my job the physics of waveguides.
I purchased this book because it was recommended by Jackson. In fact Jacksons chapter on waveguide is a summery of what you can find it here.
Although very difficullt to read you can find all information about guided waves you need. I was never required to go beyond this book.

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Summary: Field Theory of Guided Waves (2nd ed.): A Goldmine !
Review: Briefly, Professor Robert E. Collin's revised text (Field Theory of Guided Waves) is a goldmine for those who want to do serious work in applied electromagnetics. This book is not addressed with aspiring physicists in mind, but rather directed at electrical engineers who are engaged working in radio wave propagation, scattering and antennas. The author covers a whole slew of topics like TEM waves, Surface waveguides, function theoretic techniques, waveguide and cavity excitations, inhomogeneously filled waveguides and dielectric resonators etc. and etc. There is a good amount of analytical material relegated to the mathematical appendices.

What is different in the second edition (from its earlier 1960 edition) is the most profitable chapter on Green's functions (ch. 2 of the book). This chapter runs from page 55 to 172 - that is about 127 pages. Prof. Collin, like an articulate storyteller, covers most of the important aspects of Green's functions that an engineer may need to know. This chapter was missing from its 1st edition and hence its inclusion in the 2nd edition has increased the book's worth several fold.

To use the book profitably, I suggest that the reader work through carefully chapters 1 and 2. Also, because this book is intended to be a graduate (advanced) text, the reader muts have a good background in the undergraduate engineering mathematics that EE students are required to take at most universities in USA and abroad.

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Summary: The "Divina Commedia" of Applied Electromagnetism!
Review: Simply staten this is one of the finest books ever written in applied electromagnetics.There is a deligthful analytical treatment of everything related to wave-propagation in waveguides.But Mr Collin is not a dry-hearted teacher ,he is able to explain very complicated mathematical instruments with a very clear and fresh approach.Expecially good is the Green Function's treatment which is the best i ever saw in any book.Reading this book you will be able to progress from the intermediate to the very advanced level in Applied Electromagnetism.While it is true that nowadays there is a lot of software around that analyses almost every conceivable structure,it is also true that a analytical study gives you the possibility to sort the important from the accessory ,a thing no computer system is still able to do.I reccomend this book to anyone interested in advanced Electromagnetism.Only bad point is the price ,which is too much high expecially with the weak Euro we have now .On the whole a "top" book:5 stars!