Bragg Reflection Characteristics of Millimeter Waves in a Corrugated H-Guide

The Bragg reflection characteristics of millimeter waves in a H-guide having a corrugated dielectric slab are investigated by the perturbation method of multiple scales. Brillouin diagrams in the vicinity of the Bragg frequency of the TM-TM-, TE-TE-, and TM-TE-mode couplings are shown. Validity of the theoretical predictions are confirmed by experiments carried out in the 40-50-GHz region. Typical frequency response at the stopband resulting from TM-TM-mode coupling is stop bandwidth about 380 MHz, with return loss about 2.1 dB at the Bragg frequency 47.3 GHz.