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Systematic elaboration of trial function bases for the study of ridged circular waveguide discontinuities polarizer
Author(s) -
Najid A.,
Crampagne R.,
Baudrand H.,
BoukliHacene N.
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.10643
Subject(s) - classification of discontinuities , discontinuity (linguistics) , polarizer , waveguide , mathematical analysis , microwave , scalar (mathematics) , optics , scattering , scattering parameters , matrix (chemical analysis) , physics , mathematics , engineering , geometry , materials science , telecommunications , birefringence , composite material
This paper presents a mixed method for the characterization of ridged circular waveguide discontinuities. The method is based on integral equations in combination with a scalar Green's function and a boundary element method for the calculation an arbitrary ridged circular waveguide's mode spectrum. The modes computed by this technique are used as trial function bases for the characterization of arbitrary ridged circular waveguide discontinuities. An improved variational multimodal formulation is used for the characterization of the step discontinuity. Coupling coefficients are evaluated by post processing of the matrices already used in the modes' determination, and the overall scattering matrix is obtained by cascading the impedance matrix of such a discontinuity. In order to validate this method, screws used in filter design and spectrum polarizer are modeled and the numerical results are verified by excellent agreement with published data. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 35: 478–482, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10643