Toward Wide-Band Low-Loss Gap-Waveguide-Integrated Grid Amplifiers
Paper i proceeding, 2017

A passive W-band 19-channel spatial power splitter/combiner is presented, for the applications in grid amplifiers design. The design employs a linear array of chip-to-air-filled waveguide contactless connections, and are directly integrated within a single-layer. The meta-material-based gap waveguide is used; it enables a low-loss low-profile solution. The quasi optical beamformer gives rise to a parallel-plate planar waveguide field which excites an array of contactless chip-to-waveguide transitions via step-tapered ridge gap waveguides. The other beamformer restores the field distribution (after amplification) and excites a wave going towards the waveguide output. Furthermore, the gap waveguide technology isolates the amplifiers from one another and provides a packaging solution in a single unit. The simulated return loss of the back-to-back structure is larger than 12 dB, while the insertion loss is smaller than 1.2 dB over the entire W-band (75-110 GHz).

spatial prayer combining

electromagnetic packaging

gap waveguide technology

Waveguide transition

integration

Författare

Alhassan Aljarosha

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

A. B. Smolders

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Marianna Ivashina

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Rob Maaskant

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)

Vol. 2017-January
978-1-5386-0465-6 (ISBN)

International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
Phuket, Thailand,

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Annan fysik

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2017.8228732

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