Special Issue on Electromagnetic Theory
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1715
        Masanori KOSHIBA

PAPERS
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 . Excellent Linearly Frequency-Swept Light Source for Sensing System
   Utilizing FMCW Technique ....................................... 1716
        Lu-Tang WANG, Koichi IIYAMA and Ken-ichi HAYASHI

 . A Novel Optical Polarization Splitter Using a Dimensionally Tapered
   Velocity Coupler ............................................... 1722
        Masashi HOTTA and Masahiro GESHIRO

 . A New Formulation of Absorbing Boundary Conditions for
   Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method ........................... 1726
        Pei-Yuan WANG, Shogo KOZAKI, Makoto OHKI and Takashi YABE

 . A Variable Optical Beam Splitter Utilizing a Tapered Velocity
   Coupler ........................................................ 1731
        Masahiro GESHIRO and Masashi HOTTA

 . Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from Perfectly Conducting Moving
   Boundary--An Application of the Body Fitted Grid Generation with
   Moving Boundary-- .............................................. 1735
        Michiko KURODA

 . Nonlinear Characteristics of the Magnetostatic Surface Waves ... 1740
        Vishnu PRIYE and Makoto TSUTSUMI

 . Resonance Characteristics of Circularly Propagating Mode in a
   Coaxial Dielectric Resonator ................................... 1747
        Qing HAN, Yoshinori KOGAMI, Yoshiro TOMABECHI and Kazuhito
        MATSUMURA

 . Extinction Ratio Adjustment for the Coupler-Type Wavelength
   Demultiplexer Made by K+-Ion Diffused Waveguides ............... 1752
        Kiyoshi KISHIOKA and Yoshinori YAMAMOTO

 . Scattering Cross Sections of Lossy Dielectric Elliptic Cylinders for
   Plane Waves .................................................... 1759
        Minoru ABE, Yasunori HOSHIHARA and Toshio SEKIGUCHI

 . Influence of Cross-Sectional Deformation on Coplanar Waveguide
   Characteristics for the Use of Optical Modulator ............... 1766
        Xiang ZHANG and Tanroku MIYOSHI

 . Coupled-Mode Analysis of a Symmetric Nonlinear Directional Coupler
   Using a Singular Perturbation Scheme ........................... 1771
        Kiyotoshi YASUMOTO, Naoto MAEKAWA and Hiroshi MAEDA

 . High Efficient and Small Sized Coupling Optics for Monolithic Array
   LD Module ...................................................... 1776
        Junichiro YAMASHITA, Akihiro ADACHI, Shinichi KANEKO and
        Tsutomu HASHIMOTO

 . Rough Surface Inverse Scattering Problem with Gaussian Beam
   IIIumination ................................................... 1781
        Changwei YING and Akira NOGUCHI

 . Numerical Analysis of Inductive Discontinuities of Finite Thickness
   in Rectangular Waveguides Using the Modified Residue-Calculus
   Method ......................................................... 1786
        Toshihiko SHIBAZAKI, Teruhiro KINOSHITA and Ryoji SHIN'YAGAITO

 . A New Formulation for Radiated Fields Using Radiation Mode
   Expansions and Its Application to Radiation from Microstrip
   Antennas ....................................................... 1795
        Nagayoshi MORITA

 . Estimation of Source Particle Trajectories from Far Electromagnetic
   Fields Using the LieLnard-Wiechert Superpotentials: Twin Particles
   System ......................................................... 1802
        Hideki KAWAGUCHI and Toshihisa HONMA

 . Crosstalk Observed on the Background of the Transmitted Image
   through a Short Image Fiber .................................... 1808
        Akira KOMIYAMA and Masahiro HASHIMOTO

 . Radiation from a Line Source in a Stratified Slab Waveguide .... 1814
        Hideaki HORIUCHI, Shoji YAMAGUCHI and Toshio HOSONO

 . Propagation Characteristics of Dielectric Waveguides with Slanted
   Grating Structure .............................................. 1820
        Hirotaka TANAKA, Tsuneki YAMASAKI and Toshio HOSONO

LETTERS
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 . Time-Resolved Nonstationary-Field Dynamics in Nonlinear Optical
   Channel Waveguides: Numerical Evidence for Intrapulse Switching and
   Space-Time Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking Instabilities ......... 1828
        Kazuya HAYATA and Masanori KOSHIBA

 . Method of Numerical Calculation of Paths of Creeping Rays on a
   Convex Body .................................................... 1833
        Masahiko NISHIMOTO and Hiroyoshi IKUNO

 . Application of a Boundary Matching Technique to an Inverse Problem
   for Circularly Symmetric Objects ............................... 1837
        Kenichi ISHIDA, Takato KUDOU and Mitsuo TATEIBA

 . Errata (Vol.E77-C, No.10 Paper: H.NISHIYAMA, M.NAKAMURA and
   I.MINOWA) ...................................................... 1846
 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-C-I, J77-C-II, No.11 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1841