Parallel-plate ladder waveguide for millimeter-wave and terahertz waveguiding

Author

Ahmadi-Boroujeni, Mehdi ; Shahabadi, Mahmoud

Author_Institution

Center of Excellence on Appl. Electromagn. Syst., Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

5-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, parallel-plate ladder waveguide (PPLWG) is proposed for mm-wave and terahertz guided-wave application. By using a rigorous full-wave method based on the generalized multipole technique (GMT), modal analysis of the proposed waveguide is presented. It is shown that the dominant mode of PPLWG has the same polarization as the TE₁ mode of a standard parallel-plate waveguide and can be efficiently coupled to this mode. By presenting the results of simulation, realization of waveguide bend, filter, and delay line using PPLWG is also demonstrated.

Keywords

delay lines; ladder filters; millimetre wave filters; modal analysis; parallel plate waveguides; terahertz wave devices; delay line; full-wave method; generalized multipole technique; millimeter wave waveguide; millimetre-wave filter; modal analysis; parallel plate ladder waveguide; terahertz guided-wave application; terahertz waveguide; waveguide bend; Bandwidth; Electric fields; Metals; Modal analysis; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Modal analysis; parallel-plate waveguides (PPWGs); periodic structures; submillimeter wave components; terahertz components;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-754-2

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972711

Filename

5972711