Electromagnetic Time Reversal

Farhad Rachidi, Titular Professor and Head of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne, SwitzerlandDr Rachidi served as the Vice-Chair of the European COST Action on the Physics of Lightning Flash and its Effects (2005-2009), and the President of the International Conference on Lightning Protection (2008-2014). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, and President of the Swiss National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). In 2014 he was conferred the title of Honorary Professor of the Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.Marcos Rubinstein, Professor, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Yverdon, SwitzerlandProfessor Rubinstein is Chairman of the International Project on Electromagnetic Radiation from Lightning to Tall Structures IPLT. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Open Atmospheric Science Journal. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications in reviewed journals and international conferences, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.Mario Paolone, Associate Professor and head of the Distributed Energy Systems Laboratory of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Lausanne, SwitzerlandMario Paolone received the PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002. In 2020 he received Associate Professor eligibility from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. In 2013 he was the recipient of the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award, and he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.

• List of Contributors ixPreface xiAbout the CompanionWebsite xvii1 Time Reversal: A Different Perspective 1M. Rubinstein, F. Rachidi, and M. Paolone2 Time Reversal in Diffusive Media 29A. Cozza and F. Monsef3 From Electromagnetic Time-Reversal Theoretical Accuracy to Practical Robustness for EMC Applications 91P. Bonnet, S. Lalléchère, and F. Paladian4 Amplification of ElectromagneticWaves Using Time Reversal 145Matthieu Davy, Mathias Fink, and Julien de Rosny5 Application of Time Reversal to Power Line Communications for theMitigation of Electromagnetic Radiation 169P. Pagani, M. Ney, and A. Zeddam6 Application of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Lightning Location 189M. Rubinstein and F. Rachidi7 Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Fault Location in Power Networks 217R. Razzaghi, G. Lugrin, M. Paolone, and F. RachidiIndex 275