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A degree‐two WR90 waveguide circulator using radial dielectric waveguide transformers
Author(s) -
Hocine M.,
Tsounis V.,
Sharp J.
Publication year - 2003
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.11033
Subject(s) - circulator , turnstile , microwave , transformer , resonator , return loss , waveguide , electrical engineering , dielectric , insertion loss , materials science , optics , engineering , optoelectronics , physics , telecommunications , voltage , computer science , antenna (radio) , programming language
Most commercial degree‐two waveguide circulators using gyromagnetic turnstile and post resonators are quarter‐wave coupled by metal transformers. The purpose of this short paper is to experimentally describe one post‐resonator geometry using a self‐jigging, partially dielectric‐loaded radial waveguide transformer. The assembly developed in this work has a return loss of 20 dB and an insertion loss of 0.20 dB over a bandwidth of approximately 12% in the WR90 waveguide. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 263–264, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11033