Abstract
The transient fields in the time-domain of a thin circular loop antenna on a two-layer conducting earth model are expressed in analytical form. In these expressions, the displacement currents both in the two-layer ground and in the air region are taken into consideration. The closed-form expressions of the time-domain are obtained as the inverse Laplace transform of the derived full-wave time-harmonic solution. These time-domain solutions are obtained as a summation of wave-guide modes plus contributions from branch cuts in the complex plane of the longitudinal wave number. Numerical examples are given to indicate the important features in the wave forms of the surface fields due to step and pulsed current excitation. These features provide the means of detecting the earth's stratification, measuring the overburden height, and determining the ratio of the conductivities of the layers.