Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2003
A known electrodynamic approach is generalized to guided-wave structuresusing a hypothetical space-dispersive medium with drifting charge carriersand simultaneously possessing elastic, piezoelectric, and magneticproperties. On the basis of Maxwell's equations along with the appropriateequations of medium motion, the power-energy theorem is derived in thegeneral form involving additional contributions from specific propertiesof the medium. The general power-energy relation yields particularexpressions obtained previously for specific cases of the elasticpiezo-dielectrics, magnetized ferrites, and drifting charge carriers innondegenerate plasmas. Substantial features of our electrodynamic studyare the allowance for medium losses and the separation of potential fieldspeculiar to the slow quasi-static waves which propagate in such activemedia independently of the fast electromagnetic waves of curl nature.Separating the potential fields gives a certain modification ofelectromagnetic terms in the power-energy theorem.