Excitation of an untilted narrow-wall slot in a rectangular waveguide by using etched strips on a dielectric plate

We propose a novel excitation technique of an untilted slot in the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide. The excitation is realized by inserting into the slot a dielectric plate on which there are etched conducting strips. The strip excitation can control the coupling more easily and accurately than a conventional excitation using tilted wires. We analyze the coupling to the slot by using the dyadic Green´s function for the waveguide with the dielectric plate, derived by Seki´s (1984) virtual cavity method. A double resonance due to the strip and the slot results in large coupling as well as small variation of the phase of the transmitted wave, both over a wide frequency band. Some results are verified by measurements. The coupling can be tuned by varying the distance between the slot and the strip