• DocumentCode
    1240621
  • Title

    Recent British Work on Millimetric Waveguide Systems

  • Author

    White, Robert W. ; Read, Michael B. ; Moore, A.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Martlesham Health, Ipswich, England
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    9/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1378
  • Lastpage
    1390
  • Abstract
    A comprehensive United Kingdom program of research and development on guided millimetric waves concentrates its main effort on a 50-mm internal diameter lightweight helix waveguide, but a lightweight dielectric-lined waveguide is also being investigated. A full-scale Post Office/industry field trial over a 14.1-kin route is scheduled for 1975. Problems of mechanical construction of waveguides are discussed, as well as communication systems aspects. Attention is paid to terminal/repeater equipment, band-branching assemblies, transmitter-receiver equipment (using 500-Mbit/s quadrature PSK modulation), regenerators, differential demodulators, and IMPATT diode oscillators. High reliability is also required of high-efficiency solidstate oscillators.
  • Keywords
    Helical waveguides; Millimeter-wave communications; Millimeter-wave waveguides; PSK systems; United Kingdom; Assembly; Construction industry; Demodulation; Dielectrics; Diodes; Job shop scheduling; Oscillators; Phase shift keying; Repeaters; Research and development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOM.1974.1092370
  • Filename
    1092370