A 141-GHz Integrated Quasi-Optical Slot Antenna Tripler
Paper in proceeding, 1999
We present a quasi-optical frequency tripler with heterostructure barrier varactor (HBV) diodes soldered across two slot antennas and located at the focal plane of a dielectric lens. The slot antennas are fed from a WR-22 waveguide connected to a Gunn oscillator. A quasi-optical high-pass filter is used to tune the slot impedance and increase the conversion efficiency. The symmetric capacitance-voltage and asymmetric current-voltage characteristics of the HBV diodes only allows odd harmonics of the applied signal to be generated, and thus simplifies the frequency tripler design.
quasi-optical
HBV
frequency multiplier
Author
Stein Hollung
Department of Microelectronics
Jan Stake
Department of Microelectronics
Lars Dillner
Department of Microelectronics
Erik Kollberg
Department of Microelectronics
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium
Vol. 4 2394-2397
0-7803-5639-x (ISBN)
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1109/APS.1999.789292
ISBN
0-7803-5639-x