Title :
Plasma capillary application to switchable and tunable EBG coupler
Author :
Varault, Stefan ; Bolioli, Sylvain ; Sokoloff, Jérôme
Author_Institution :
DEMR, ONERA, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
We present in this study the application of a plasma capillary used as a point defect between two waveguides. By varying the intensity at the capillary electrodes, the resonance frequency of the point defect can be tuned in order to couple energy at the desired frequency.
Keywords :
Crystalline materials; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic waveguides; Particle scattering; Periodic structures; Photonic crystals; Plasma applications; Plasma waves; Transmission line matrix methods;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona, Spain
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6431-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-84-7653-472-4