Affordable terahertz components using 3D printing

Author

Kaur, Amanpreet ; Myers, Joshua C. ; Ghazali, Mohd Ifwat Mohd ; Byford, Jennifer ; Chahal, Premjeet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

26-29 May 2015

Firstpage

2071

Lastpage

2076

Abstract

This paper presents the design and characterization of 3D printed photonic crystal filter (quasi optic component) and dielectric ridge waveguide (integrated component). Commercially available 3D printer was used to print polymer based components. Design and characterization of these devices is carried out over a frequency range of 0.15 - 0.5 THz. The photonic crystal filter shows a stop band from 0.25 - 0.35 THz. Also a very narrow defect mode (notch filter) was introduced by altering the structure of photonic crystal. The dielectric ridge waveguide shows broadband THz propagation characteristics. The transmission loss was determined to be largely dominated by the loss characteristics of the polymer material used.

Keywords

crystal filters; dielectric waveguides; millimetre wave filters; notch filters; photonic crystals; ridge waveguides; terahertz wave devices; three-dimensional printing; 3D printed photonic crystal filter; 3D printer; broadband THz propagation characteristics; defect mode; dielectric ridge waveguide; frequency 0.15 GHz to 0.5 GHz; integrated component; loss characteristics; notch filter; polymer based components; quasi optic component; transmission loss; Dielectric losses; Microwave filters; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Printing; Three-dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) , 2015 IEEE 65th

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.2015.7159888

Filename

7159888