Optoelectronic measurements of picosecond electrical pulse propagation in coplanar waveguide transmission lines

Author

Paulter, Nicholas G. ; Sinha, Dipen N. ; Gibbs, Alan J. ; Eisenstadt, William R.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

37

Issue

10

fYear

1989

fDate

10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1612

Lastpage

1619

Abstract

Observations are presented concerning the effects of coplanar waveguide transmission lines on the propagation of picosecond electrical pulses using an optoelectronic time-domain measurement technique. Effects of various test structure design factors such as substrate thickness, thickness of transmission line metallization, discontinuity spacing, ground plane width, pulser/sampler line length, and pulser/sampler geometry on picosecond electrical pulse propagation in microwave/millimeter wave coplanar waveguide transmission lines are discussed, and schemes for minimizing the adverse effects of each of the above factors are provided

Keywords

guided electromagnetic wave propagation; waveguides; coplanar waveguide; discontinuity spacing; ground plane width; metallisation thickness; microwave CPW lines; millimeter wave; optoelectronic time-domain measurement technique; picosecond electrical pulse propagation; pulser/sampler geometry; pulser/sampler line length; substrate thickness; test structure design factors; transmission lines; Coplanar transmission lines; Coplanar waveguides; Electric variables measurement; Measurement techniques; Microwave propagation; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation; Testing; Time domain analysis; Transmission line measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.41009

Filename

41009