Modal analysis of radial-resonator waveguide diode mounts

A method of calculating the driving-point and transfer admittances of waveguide diode mounts with radial resonators is presented. The method is applicable to a variety of mount configurations, including the widely used resonant-cap mount. The analysis uses multimodal admittance matrices to represent the radial regions and their coupling and includes the influence of the waveguide boundary conditions. The analysis proceeds by first determining (from the matching of tangential fields at the common boundary) the coupling between radial regions in the form of a mode-coupling matrix. By multiplying this matrix with the generalized admittance matrices of connecting radial regions to form an overall admittance matrix, the driving-point and transfer admittances for a general radial-resonator mount can be extracted. The method is demonstrated by application to the resonant-cap mount. The accuracy of the analysis is confirmed by comparison with experimental results.<>