REconfigurable Terahertz INtegrated Architecture (RETINA)

A paradigm shift in the way millimetre-wave components and subsystems are conceived is presented with our REconfigurable Terahertz INtegrated Architecture (RETINA) concept. Here, an entirely new way of implementing virtual metal-pipe rectangular waveguides is demonstrated through simulations. Instead of having traditional air-filled structures with solid metal sidewalls, waveguides have photo-induced virtual sidewalls within high resistivity silicon. This new technology allows components to be tunable and subsystems to be reconfigurable, by changing light source patterns. A summary of the detailed analysis of wall photoconductivity and electromagnetic simulations is presented here for the first time.