Experimental analysis of metal coated dielectric waveguides

This paper concerns the experimental characteristics of metal coated dielectric waveguides with a rectangular surface corrugation. Waveguide are designed to operate at a second Bragg frequency of 90 GHz. The period, height and the duty cycle of a rectangular grating were calculated using the chosen frequency. A metallic layer of aluminum is sputtered on one side of the slab waveguide. The purpose of the metallic layer is to simulate a layer of high density plasma on the surface of the waveguide similar to that obtained by optical excitation of semiconductor structures. Experiments were performed to examine the far field radiation pattern, attenuation constant and the dispersion relation. Due to the presence of the plasma layer there will be an angular shift in the far field radiation pattern. We have observed angular shifts of about 20? in the radiation pattern of the waveguide before and after coating. Measurements are made in the frequency range of 88–95 GHz. This waveguide structure can be used to design an electronically steerable antenna and an electronic phase shifter operating in the millimeter-wave frequency band.     

带状束矩形栅毫米波行波管的研究

为了克服单模近似法(SMA)在分析矩形栅慢波系统高频特性的局限性,用“本征函数法”得到了其色散特性,进而求得耦合阻抗.并针对矩形栅的两种典型结构(浅槽栅和深槽栅)进行数值计算,分析了金属栅的几何尺寸对系统高频特性的影响.设计出3 cm、8mm波段的矩形栅模型,进行实验测量,实验值与理论值符合良好.导出了考虑电子注时的“热”色散方程,得到其小信号增益,讨论了电子注参数和慢波电路几何尺寸对小信号增益的影响,为矩形栅慢波系统行波管的设计提供了理论基础.     

A numerical investigation of wave interactions in dielectricwaveguides with periodic surface corrugations

The modal properties of planar multilayered waveguides with a rectangular surface corrugation are investigated. A rigorous full Floquet numerical analysis is performed for the fundamental TE mode of the infinite periodic structure. The algorithm is based on a boundary element solution of the integral wave equation in the grating region. A generalized transverse resonance-type matrix equation is sought that matches all continuity, periodicity, and boundary conditions. The resonant solutions of this characteristic equation represent all the surface and leaky waves supported by the structure. The exact dispersion characteristics, as well as the amplitudes of the space harmonics are computed and discussed in connection with radiation losses and coupling mechanisms near resonant Bragg conditions. In particular, a specific double-heterostructure GaAs/AlGaAs waveguide geometry is examined in detail     

镀膜刻槽型太赫兹聚合物波导管的传输特性研究

设计了外壁镀金膜环形槽型和内壁镀铜膜螺旋槽型两种太赫兹聚合物波导管。主要分析和比较这两种波导管的衰减与色散特性。在太赫兹频段,外壁镀金膜环形槽型比内壁镀铜膜螺旋槽型对太赫兹波的衰减大;内壁镀铜膜螺旋槽型比外壁镀金膜环形槽型的色散大,并且出现负色散现象。研究表明,内壁镀铜膜螺旋槽波导管适合传输太赫兹波,而太赫兹波在外壁镀金膜环形槽波导管内损耗较大,不适宜传输。分析二者的电场和磁场特性,均没有出现仿表面等离子体现象。     

利用偏移半销钉结构设计带阻滤波器

介绍了一种新颖的波导类椭圆带阻滤波器.该滤波器的结构由传输TE10主模的矩形波导中的偏移半销钉和四分之一波长传输线组成.波导中半销钉的等效电路即在谐振频率处为一个串联LC谐振电路,此谐振电路产生一个衰减极点.销钉的高度主要用来控制谐振频率,销钉距离波导中心的偏移量用来控制谐振单元间的耦合强度.最后设计了一个中心频率为9...     

Analysis of Lossy Inhomogeneous Waveguides Using Shooting Methods (Short Papers)

Shooting methods are used to analyze rectangular waveguides containing inhomogeneous lossy dielectrics. The technique obtains the electromagnetic fields inside the waveguide by solving Maxwell's equations using trial and error procedures to match the boundary conditions at the conducting waveguide surface. Dispersion and attenuation curves are obtained which show how continuous dielectric inhomogeneities and losses affect the transmission characteristics of these waveguides.     

太赫兹波在金属镀层空芯圆波导中的传输特性

文章理论分析了太赫兹波在金属镀层空芯圆波导中的传输特性.比较了在内直径为2mm的空芯圆波导中分别镀金、铅、镍不同金属时不同入射频率的太赫兹波的理论衰减常数,计算了镀不同金属而入射波波长一定的情况下波导中主模即最低模TE11模的衰减常数随波导内直径的变化情况.进一步研究表明Au,Ag,Cu均可作为空芯圆波导中优良的金属镀层以用于太赫兹波的低损耗传输.     

Radiation loss of grating-assisted directional coupler

The coupling between the guided modes and between guided and radiation modes of two parallel slab waveguides forming a directional coupler in order is computed to determine the radiation losses introduced by the coupling grating. The problem is solved in two stages. First, the guided modes for each waveguide are computed separately and the radiation modes are only determined for the more complicated of the two waveguides, the one that is nearer to the grating. Modifications caused by the presence of the opposite waveguide are then taken into account by computing first-order correction terms. For a practical example of slab waveguides defined in GaInAsP, the authors find that the radiation losses per power exchange length remain below 0.02 dB for a rectangular grating depth of 0.01 μm     

3D-Printed Broadband Dielectric Tube Terahertz Waveguide with Anti-Reflection Structure

We demonstrate broadband, low loss, and close-to-zero dispersion guidance of terahertz (THz) radiation in a dielectric tube with an anti-reflection structure (AR-tube waveguide) in the frequency range from 0.2 to 1.0 THz. The anti-reflection structure (ARS) consists of close-packed cones in a hexagonal lattice arranged on the outer surface of the tube cladding. The feature size of the ARS is in the order of the wavelength between 0.2 and 1.0 THz. The waveguides are fabricated with the versatile and cost efficient 3D-printing method. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) measurements as well as 3D finite-difference time-domain simulations (FDTD) are performed to extensively characterize the AR-tube waveguides. Spectrograms, attenuation spectra, effective phase refractive indices, and the group-velocity dispersion parameters β ₂ of the AR-tube waveguides are presented. Both the experimental and numerical results confirm the extended bandwidth and smaller group-velocity dispersion of the AR-tube waveguide compared to a low loss plain dielectric tube THz waveguide. The AR-tube waveguide prototypes show an attenuation spectrum close to the theoretical limit given by the infinite cladding tube waveguide.     

Dispersion characteristics of asymmetric coupled anisotropic dielectric waveguides using FDFD

The formulation is developed in the frequency domain and the finite difference method is used for the numerical solution of the scalar wave equation, written in terms of the transverse components of the magnetic field. As a result a conventional eigenvalue problem is obtained without the presence of spurious modes due to the implicit inclusion of the divergence of the magnetic field equal to zero. The formulation is developed to include biaxial anisotropic dielectrics with an index profile varying arbitrarily in the cross section of the waveguide under analysis. This formulation is then applied to the analysis of the influence on the dispersion characteristics of the dimensions of asymmetric coupled rectangular uniaxial anisotropic dielectric waveguides. As expected, the reduction of the height or the width of one of the rectangular dielectric waveguides causes the dispersion curves to move towards higher frequencies.     

Characterization of micromachined silicon rectangular waveguide at 400 GHz

We present the first characterization of a micromachined silicon rectangular waveguide at 400GHz. The silicon waveguide has an average loss of 0.086dB/mm for a range of 350-460GHz. The waveguides are formed using well known microfabrication techniques and demonstrate a successful first step towards the use of silicon waveguides as a viable option for THz systems.     

Analysis of grating-coupled radiation in GaAs:GaAlAs lasers and waveguides

Grating-coupled radiation in GaAs:GaAlAs lasers and waveguides is analyzed. A general formulation is developed for arbitrary-shaped gratings which need not be small in size. Two methods are used to solve the resulting equations in the case of rectangular-shaped gratings. The first is a perturbation technique and the second is iterative in nature. The iterative procedure converges to a numerical exact solution in many cases of practical interest and indicates that the perturbation results are quite accurate. Curves are presented for radiated power from traveling waves as a function of grating tooth height, tooth width, refractive index, waveguide thickness, and period for rectangular gratings in heterostructure waveguiding geometries. It is shown that radiation is not a monotonically increasing function of tooth height, but rather maxima occur when the teeth are half the optical wavelength in the material. Also, in particular geometries with an air:GaAs grating interface, radiated power of a mode can exceed 100 cm^-1.     

QPSK信号下富碳化硅双slot波导的相位敏感放大特性研究

相位敏感放大可以改善光通信传输链路的传输性能,是全光信号处理领域中的重要组成部分。本文通过结合一种碳硅原子比为1.28的富碳化硅,构建了水平双slot结构的硅基波导模型。该模型的色散平坦部分覆盖500 nm左右的波段且具有多个零色散点,非线性系数最高可达20000 W^-1·m^-1。通过采用有限元法分析计算其在通信波段的模场分布、色散特性及非线性特性。同时结合结构尺寸优化后的波导模型,建立了在硅基波导中基于四波混频效应的光传输模型,并求解分析了该波导在QPSK信号下的相位敏感特性。仿真结果表明该波导可以实现34 dB相敏增益,在片上信号处理领域具有潜在的应用前景。     

Photoimageable thick-film millimetre-wave metal-pipe rectangularwaveguides

A novel dielectric-filled metal-pipe rectangular waveguide has been fabricated using photoimageable thick-film materials. The waveguides incorporate a new transition from CPW-to-TFMS-to-MPRWG. Standard on-wafer measurement techniques, waveguide STD calibration standards, demonstrated low attenuation across the 60 to 90 GHz frequency range     

Bandwidth and dispersion characteristics of a new rectangularwaveguide with two L-shaped septa

A new rectangular waveguide with two L-shaped septa has been added to the family of septa-loaded broad-band waveguides. Its modal characteristics and dispersion in the inhomogeneously loaded version have been theoretically determined. The cutoff frequency and the bandwidth of the lowest TE mode are also compared with the experimentally measured values obtained with a test cavity     

A high-gain 58-GHz box-horn array antenna with suppressed gratinglobes

A low-profile high-gain antenna array of box horns for the frequency band 57.2-58.2 GHz is presented. The antenna consists of 256 radiating elements divided into two subgroups of 128 elements fed by a rectangular waveguide feed network. The radiating elements are fed in parallel and the waveguides are connected with T-junctions. The matching of the T-junctions is improved with a matching pin and a splitter. Because of the waveguide feed network, the element spacing is larger than one wavelength, which causes grating lobes. The grating lobes and sidelobes in the H-plane have been suppressed by the use of a combination of subarrays, a special characteristic of the box horn, and an array amplitude tapering. The measured sidelobe levels in the H-plane are below -30 dB at angles larger than 8° from boresight. A gain higher than 35.7 dBi and a return loss higher than 14.4 dB have been measured for the antenna over the band 57.2-58.2 GHz     

硅包层质子交换条形光波导的频率响应

退火质子交换工艺已成为一种制备低损耗铌酸锂光波导的重要技术.但目前对该类光波导传输特性的研究还不多.利用半矢量光束传播法,对硅包层X切退火质子交换铌酸锂条形光波导的频率响应特性进行了数值分析.给出了几种波导结构参数下的计算结果.结果表明,波导传输模式的衰减特性与波长相关.波导的衰减特性,可以通过调整波导表面中心处折射率增量,硅包层厚度,及缓冲层的折射率和厚度来控制.硅包层光波导可以用来制作光频滤波器.     

太赫兹矩形波导与共面波导耦合结构设计

太赫兹（THz）波位于微波与红外光波之间,现有微波和光波段波导技术应用正在向THz波段拓展。但是,由于水汽对THz波的强吸收及制造工艺等原因,THz器件主要是平面结构,而THz源及其传输需要用矩形波导。因此,矩形波导与共面波导之间的转换结构成为决定元件和系统性能的关键部分。该设计利用脊波导进行阻抗匹配及电磁场模式转换,实现THz波矩形波导到共面波导的高效率耦合。结果表明,在0.2~0.4 THz频段内,该转换结构的传输系数(S₂₁)高于?3 dB,可以对THz电磁场进行高效率转换。该结果可用于太赫兹分子探测、太赫兹通信等领域,为0.2 THz以上太赫兹的模式转换提供了一种可行方案。     

Broad-Band Stepped Transformers from Rectangular to Double-Ridged Waveguide

The design of a series of broad-band Tchebycheff-type stepped waveguide transformers from various sizes of standard rectangular waveguides to a double ridged waveguide covering the frequency range of 4750 to 11,000 mc is described. Four separate transformers employing RG-67/U (WR-90), RG-68/U (WR-112), RG-106/U (WR-137), and WR-159 to Airtron ARA-133 double-ridged waveguide have been designed using this technique and cast in aluminum. The complete frequency range is covered by several pairs depending on which sizes of mating rectangular waveguides are desired. The RG-106/U design covers a frequency range of 53 per cent with a maximum VSWR of 1.08, while the other three designs each cover a slightly smaller frequency band with a VSWR not exceeding 1.05. Along with the experimental results obtained, an outline of the design method is given which can be used to design similar transformers between any compatible rectangular and double ridged waveguides.     

DIELECTRIC EFFECT ON THE RADIO-FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF A RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE GRATING TRAVELING WAVE TUBE

A new type of partial-dielectric-loaded rectangular waveguide grating slow-wave structure (SWS) for millimeter wave traveling wave tube (TWT) is presented in this paper. The radio-frequency characteristics including the dispersion properties, the longitudinal electric field distribution and the beam-wave coupling impedance of this structure are analyzed. The results show that the dispersion of the rectangular waveguide grating circuit is weakened, the phase velocity is reduced and the position of the maximum E _z is basically invariant after partially filling the dielectric materials in the rectangular waveguide grating SWS. Although the coupling impedance decreases a little, it still keeps above 40 Ω.