Comment - Evanescent waves do contribute to the far field

In a series of papers [1], it has been claimed that evanescent waves contribute to the far field of a radiating dipole, i.e. that the amplitude of the sum of the evanescent waves decreases as 1/r with increasing distance, r, from the dipole. In spite of the fact that three recent papers [2] have demonstrated that these claims are incorrect and that they contradict well-established results relating to the farzone behavior of the angular spectrum representation of wavefields [3], the author continues to repeat this claim, most recently in a note with the title ‘Evanescent waves do contribute to the field’. It is the purpose of this note to point out an error in the previous publications [1] which has led to this erroneous conclusion. © 2000 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.