Design and testing of photonic band gap channel-drop-filters

Author

Shchegolkov, Dmitry Yu ; Earley, Lawrence M. ; Heath, Cynthia E. ; Smirnova, Evgenya I.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We have designed, fabricated and tested several novel passive mm-wave spectrometers based on photonic band gap (PBG) structures. Our spectrometers were designed to operate in the frequency ranges of 90-130 and 220-300 GHz. We built and tested both metallic and dielectric silicon channel-drop-filter (CDF) structures at 90-130 GHz. We are currently fabricating a dielectric CDF structure to operate at 220-300 GHz. The complete recent test results for the metal version and preliminary test results for the higher frequency silicon versions will be presented at the conference.

Keywords

dielectric materials; elemental semiconductors; metals; microwave photonics; millimetre wave filters; millimetre wave spectroscopy; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical filters; optical testing; photonic band gap; silicon; Si; channel-drop-filter design; channel-drop-filter testing; dielectric silicon channel-drop-filter; frequency 220 GHz to 300 GHz; frequency 90 GHz to 130 GHz; metallic channel-drop-filter; millimeter-wave spectrometer fabrication; passive millimeter-wave spectrometers; photonic band gap channel-drop-filters; photonic band gap structures; Detectors; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic waveguides; Filters; Frequency; Photonic band gap; Radar antennas; Silicon; Spectroscopy; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2009. IRMMW-THz 2009. 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5416-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5417-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIMW.2009.5324590

Filename

5324590