Narrow band ridge waveguide-to-microstrip transition for low noise amplifier at Ku-band

A compact Ku-band waveguide-to-microstrip transition integrated with low noise amplifier is designed. It acts as an interconnect between waveguide antenna and RF receiver modules. The transition design consists of standard waveguide WR62, a cavity for the low noise amplifier and a solid transformer section in the form of a staircase called ridge. The ridge is fixed in the bottom wall of a waveguide with the help of a screw. The centre conductor of a coaxial connector is brought near this transformer but doesn´t touch the transformer; these elements together with the back of the staircase and an adjacent portion of the bottom wall define a magnetic field coupling loop. This design methodology gives us narrow bandwidth of 500MHz at Ku-band and hence eliminates the need for a filter in receiver section for specific applications.