Ultra-wideband coplanar microstrip transitions for connectorizing microwave photonic components based on thin polymer and driven by microstrip electrode

Author

El-Gibari, Mohammed ; Mahé, Yann ; Averty, Dominique ; Lupi, Cyril ; Li, Hongwu

Author_Institution

Fac. des Sci. et Tech., Inst. de Rech. en Electrotech. et Electron. de Nantes Atlantique, Nantes, France

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present ultra-wideband coplanar-microstrip transitions studied both experimentally and by numerical simulations. They are very useful for characterizing and connectorizing microwave photonic devices realized from materials in thin film and driving by microstrip line, such as very promising electro-optic modulators based on polymer. Built on BCB polymer, coplanar-microstrip back-to-back transitions present a bandwidth over 70 GHz while the bandwidth of coplanar connector-microstrip back-to-back transitions can covers the range from DC to 30 GHz.

Keywords

coplanar waveguides; microstrip transitions; microwave photonics; BCB polymer; coplanar microstrip back-to-back transition; electrooptic modulator; microstrip electrode; microwave photonic component; thin polymer; ultrawideband coplanar microstrip transition; Bandwidth; Connectors; Microstrip; Microwave circuits; Microwave photonics; Polymers; Substrates; Ultra-wide bandwidth; back-to-back GCPW-MS-GCPW transitions; coplanar connector; polymers; thin film;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (GeMIC), 2011 German

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9225-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-9812668-3-2

Type

conf

Filename

5760731