Premium
A waveguide shutter using electromagnetic crystals
Author(s) -
Kim M.,
Sung Y.,
Higgins J. A.,
Xin H.,
Hacker J. B.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.10412
Subject(s) - microwave , waveguide , shutter , electrical impedance , optics , materials science , crystal (programming language) , power (physics) , radio frequency , rf power amplifier , electrical engineering , optoelectronics , physics , engineering , telecommunications , computer science , amplifier , cmos , quantum mechanics , programming language
A new waveguide component that controls RF power flow with variable‐surface impedance electromagnetic (EM) crystals is proposed. To prove the concept, two fixed‐impedance EM crystals were tested separately inside a standard Ku‐band waveguide. The measurements show one EM crystal passing RF power with less than 2 dB of insertion loss from 14.5 to 16.6 GHz, and the other EM crystal reflecting the RF power with better than 60 dB of isolation. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 34: 186–187, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10412