Full-wave optimum design of millimeter-wave rectangular waveguide narrow-wall branch couplers

Author

Tao Shen ; Yu Rong ; Zaki, K.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

13-19 June 1999

Firstpage

1729

Abstract

A full-wave optimum design of rectangular waveguide narrow-wall branch couplers is presented. The coupler is decomposed into the cascade connection of three types of building blocks whose generalized scattering matrices are obtained by mode-matching method. The overall generalized scattering matrix is obtained by cascading procedure. The optimization procedure is employed for coupler design. A WR28-band 6-dB coupler is designed, machined, and tested. Measured results agree well with computed results.

Keywords

S-matrix theory; millimetre wave couplers; mode matching; rectangular waveguides; waveguide couplers; WR28-band; cascade connection; full-wave design optimization; generalized scattering matrix; millimeter-wave rectangular waveguide narrow-wall branch coupler; mode matching method; Couplers; Coupling circuits; Design optimization; Frequency; Matrix decomposition; Mode matching methods; Rectangular waveguides; Scattering parameters; Transmission line matrix methods; Waveguide discontinuities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1999 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5135-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1999.780305

Filename

780305