A time domain synthesis of electromagnetic backscattering by conducting ellipsoids

A synthesis technique is presented which produces the backscatter impulse response of a conducting ellipsoid, for arbitrary direction of incidence and polarization. The basic features of the response waveform are determined by using the laws of physical optics and the time domain interpretation of the creeping wave mechanism. The above waveform is further refined by forcing it to satisfy five (namely zeroth- to fourth-order) moment conditions through the use of nonlinear optimization. Numerical results and their verification are presented.