Millimeter wave dielectric loaded exponentially tapered slot antenna array using substrate integrated waveguide for gigabit wireless communications

A new and upcoming application is the use of 60 GHz antennas for high date rate point-to-point connections to serve Gigabit(Gi-Fi)w ireless communications.The design of M illimeter w ave(M m W)antennas has to cope w ith the unadorned influences of manufacturing tolerances and losses at 60 GHz.In this paper,the concept of Substrate Integrated Waveguide(SIW)and Exponentially Tapered Slot(ETS)antenna w ere used together to design a high gain,efficient planar dielectric loaded antenna for M m W Gi-Fi w ireless communications at 60 GHz.The SIW is used to feed the antenna and a dielectric is utilized in front of the antenna to increase the gain.The dielectric loaded ETS antenna and compact SIW feed w ere fabricated on a single substrate,resulting in low cost and easy fabrication.The antenna w ith elliptical shaped dielectric loaded w as fabricated using printed circuit board process.The measured gain of the single element antenna is 10.2 dB,w hile the radiation efficiency of 96.84%is obtained at 60 GHz.The Y-junction SIW pow er divider is used to form a 1×4 array structure.M easured gain of the 1×4 array antenna is 13.3 dB,w hile the measured radiation pattern and gain are almost constant w ithin the w ide bandw idth of the antenna.

STUDY OF GROOVE NONRADIATIVE DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE AND LEAKYWAVE ANTENNA

A new structure of dielectric waveguide for millimeter waveband namedgroove nonradiative dielectric(GNRD)waveguide and a leakywave antenna based on thisstructure are developed in this paper.The GNRD structure overcomes the difficulty of as-sembling precisely the dielectric strip in the nonradiative dielectric(NRD)structure.Thedispersion characteristics of the GNRD waveguide,and the propagation and radiationcharacteristics of the GNRD leakywave antcnna have been analysed by the use of thetransverse rcsonance mcthod.The theoretical results are in good agreement with the exper-imental data.

AN INVESTIGATION OF BANDWIDTH IN DIELECTRIC SLAB LOADED RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE

Several technical problems of numerical method in TLM procedures arediscussed.The bandwidth of single mode in four kinds of dielectric slab loaded rect-angular waveguides is investigated,and the optimum bandwidth which is related tothe dimensions and dielectric constants is obtained.These results are useful to the de-sign of dielectric slab loaded rectangular waveguide.

PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF A CIRCULAR MULTILAYER CHIRAL DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE

An efficient recursive eigenfunction solution is described for the propagation characteristics of a circular multilayer chiral dielectric waveguide. A characteristic equation is derived for the propagation constant of an N-layer chiral dielectric waveguide. Numerical results are presented for several examples.

NETWORK ANALYSIS OF EIGENVALUE PROBLEM FOR MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE CONSISTING OF ARBITRARY NUMBER OF LAYERS

In this paper,the eigenvalue problem of a multilayer dielectric waveguide consisting of arbitrarynumber of layers is solved by the microwave network method.A general program with the function of com-puter graphics has been developed for analyzing the dispersion characteristics and the electromagnetic fielddistributions of an N layer dielectric waveguide.As an example of practical applications,the procedure ofmode conversion and mode separation in dielectric branching waveguides is vividly demonstrated throughanalyzing the field distributions of asymmetric multilayer dielectric structures and the general rules of modeconversion are discussed.

ANALYSIS OF DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS FOR A CIRCULAR DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE WITH PERIODIC METALLIC STRIPS

The dispersion characteristics of a circular dielectric waveguide with periodic metal-lic strips are analyzed by the Galerkin’s method.After obtaining the rigorous dispersion equation,the dispersion curves for both TE01and TM01modes are calculated by the improved Newton’smethod.The variations of the normalized center frequency,width and maximum attenuation con-stant of the stopband with the normalized width of the metallic strips are given.The convergenceproperties of numerical solutions are also discussed.On the basis of the analysis,some usefulguidelines for filter design are thereby suggested.

IMPLEMENTATION OF ANISOTROPIC PML FOR FREQUENCY DOMAIN FEM SOLUTION OF DISCONTINUITY IN DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE

The anisotropic Perfectly Matched Layer(PML) absorbing boundary condition is implemented in a 2-D finite element formulation to solve dielectric waveguide discontinuity problems. The choice of parameters of anisotropic PML has been investigated. Using the boundary truncating technique, the solution process of Finite-Element Method (FEM) has been greatly simplified compared with other hybrid methods. The required computational resources have also significantly declined since the anisotropic PML interface can be placed much closer to the scatterer compared to other well known artificial boundary.

ANALYSIS OF CLOSED DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES——MULTIMODE NETWORK APPPOACH

The dispersion characteristics of a class of closed dielectric waveguides are investigated by themethod which combines the building-block approach of multimode network theory with the rigorous modematching procedure.Several numerical examples for difrerent guiding structures have been given by the ap-proach.The same structures are also analyzed with the finite element method and the EDC method forcomparison.The calculations show that the present approach yields as highly accurate results as the finite ele-ment method while almost retaining the simplicity of the EDC method,and justify the utility of the presentmethod.

VARIATIONAL METHOD TO ANALYZE THE EQUIVALENT NETWORK OF A RECTANGULAR DIELECTRIC POST IN A RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE

The equivalent filter modeling of a rectangular dielectric post in a rectangular waveguide is obtained through the variational expression of input impedance. The reflection coefficient expressed in components of network is in good agreement with the results given by K. Siakavara, et al. (1991), The method can be applied to design filter.

Coupling Device with Resonant Cavities Based on Periodic Dielectric Waveguides

In this paper, we propose a coupling device based on periodic dielectric waveguide. In order to reduce the device size, two resonant cavities are added so that the light can be coupled between two periodic dielectric waveguides. Plane wave expansion method and two dimension finite difference time domain methods are used to analyze this device. The coupled transmission ratio of this device at the wavelength of 1550 nm is above 94%.

7.8 GHz power generation device design using a rectangular dielectric-loaded waveguide

In this paper, we present a design where a bunched relativistic electron beam traversing inside the rectangular dielectric-loaded （DL） waveguide is used as a high power microwave generation device. Two kinds of methods of calculating the electromagnetic （EM） field excited by a bunched beam are introduced, and in the second method the calculation of EM pulse length is discussed in detail. The desired operating mode is the LSM11 due to its strong interaction with the electron beam. For the designed 7.8 GHz operating frequency, with a 100 nC/bunch drive train of electron bunches separated by 0.769 ns, we find that high gradient （〉 30 MV/m） and high power （〉 160 MW） can be generated. An output coupler is also designed which is able to extract the generated power to standard waveguides with a 94% coupling efficiency.

CHARACTERISTICS OF CYCLOTRON AUTORESONANCE MASER WITH A LARGE-ORBIT ELECTRON RING IN A PARTIALLY DIELECTRIC-LOADED WAVEGUIDE

The cyclotron autoresonace masers with a large-orbit electron ring in a dielectric-loaded waveguide have been analyzed.The stability properties are investigated self-consistentlyon the basis of the linearized Vlasov-Maxwell equations.The numerical results show that thedielectric liner can greatly reduce the energy of the electron beam,and a novel effective radiationdevice with low electron beam energy in the millimeter and submillimeter wave region have beenproposed.

Numerical Analysis of 3mm Ferrite Dielectric Waveguide Through Galerkin’s Method

With the development of long range missile early warning radar,MMW phased array antenna is strongly needed. The phase shifter (PS) with high power capability and low insertion loss is a key technology in this kind of radar. Ferrite dielectric waveguide is introduced in this paper to manufacture PS,the cross section can be enlarged to 4 times of that of the conventional PS,which facilitates the engineering realization with reduced insertion loss. A novel vector base function of Galerkin method is proposed in calculating the eigenvalue of ferrite dielectric waveguide. The field distribution of main mode,power density and efficiency of 94 GHz difference phase shifter are also given.

Femtosecond laser direct writing of flexibly configured waveguide geometries in optical crystals:fabrication and application

Optical waveguides are far more than mere connecting elements in integrated optical systems and circuits.Benefiting from their high optical confinement and miniaturized footprints,waveguide structures established based on crystalline materials,particularly,are opening exciting possibilities and opportunities in photonic chips by facilitating their on-chip integration with different functionalities and highly compact photonic circuits.Femtosecond-laser-direct writing(FsLDW),as a true three-dimensional(3D)micromachining and microfabrication technology,allows rapid prototyping of on-demand waveguide geometries inside transparent materials via localized material modification.The success of FsLDW lies not only in its unsurpassed aptitude for realizing 3D devices but also in its remarkable material-independence that enables cross-platform solutions.This review emphasizes FsLDW fabrication of waveguide structures with 3D layouts in dielectric crystals.Their functionalities as passive and active photonic devices are also demonstrated and discussed.

Simplified nonlinear theory of the dielectric loaded rectangular Cerenkov maser

To rapidly and accurately investigate the performance of the dielectric loaded rectangular Cerenkov maser, a simplified nonlinear theory is proposed, in which the variations of wave amplitude and wave phase are determined by two coupled first-order differential equations. Through combining with the relativistic equation of motion and adopting the forward wave assumption, the evolutions of the forward wave power, the power growth rate, the axial wave number, the accumulated phase offset, and the information of the particle movement can be obtained in a single-pass calculation. For an illustrative example, this method is used to study the influences of the beam current, the gap distance between the beam and the dielectric surface, and the momentum spread on the forward wave. The variations of the saturated power and the saturation length with the working frequency for the beams with different momentum spreads have also been studied. The result shows that the beam wave interaction is very sensitive to the electron beam state. To further verify this simplified theory, a comparison with the result produced from a rigorous method is also provided, we find that the evolution curves of the forward wave power predicted by the two methods exhibit excellent agreement. In practical applications, the developed theory can be used for the design and analysis of the rectangular Cerenkov maser.

THE INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF DISCONTINUOUS DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE

From the mode-marching method,by doing some transforms and derivations,the scatteringand propagation integral equations for solving the problems of discontinuous dielectric structure are ob-tained.The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of solution of propagating equations is giv-en.It is really the dispersion equation of the dielectric structure.As an example,a succinct solution ofone-step discontinuous dielectric structure is derived.

Frequency Range Dependent TE₁₀to TE₄₀Metallic Waveguide Mode Converter

Dielectric rod arrays in a metallic waveguide alter the propagation modes and group velocities of electromagnetic waves. We focus on TE10-to-TE20 mode converters and investigate the variation in their behavior with frequency. In this investigation, a mode converter is proposed that passes the TE10 mode at frequencies lower than 2fc, and converts the TE10 mode into the TE40 mode for frequencies higher than 2fc, which is achieved by a combination of TE10-TE20 mode converters.

Design of a Silicon Overlay Glass Waveguide Sensor

A glass based slab waveguide, coated with a thin patterned high dielectric overlay, is configured into a refractive index sensor. The asymmetric nature of the waveguide configuration is exploited by keeping the mode in the slab waveguide while enhancing the field level in the overlay-superstrate. The sensor's response is examined using the FDTD simulation technique. A sensitivity of up to one part in 105 in the index of refraction discrimination is determined. The nature of the sensor ensures optical fibre compatibility, requires sub-μL sample volumes and provides a high resolution.

太赫兹传输波导器件研究进展

随着太赫兹技术的发展,太赫兹传输波导器件的研究成为待解决的重要问题之一。太赫兹波位于微波与红外光之间,寻找高效的传输、耦合器件一直是研究人员的目标。主要介绍了太赫兹传输波导研究现状,并总结了各类型太赫兹波导的优势与不足。根据材料与结构分别对金属波导、介质波导的研究进展进行了分析。其中金属波导包括裸金属线波导、微结构波导、空芯波导以及平板波导,介质波导包括介质空芯波导、多孔芯波导以及微结构波导。最后分别对太赫兹传输波导未来需要解决的研究方向进行了展望。