Abstract: Radio frequency device including at least: a tube through which a channel passes, a front face and/or a rear face forming a bearing surface through which the channel passes, the bearing surface forming an annular frame around one end of the tube and being integral with the tube. The bearing surface includes axial fixing apertures passing through the bearing surface and opening outside the channel in order to allow fixation of the device, and the width of the frame being greater at and in the immediate vicinity of the axial fixing apertures than at a distance from these axial fixing apertures.

Abstract: Waveguide device for guiding a radio frequency signal at a given frequency f, the device including: a core manufactured by additive manufacturing and including side walls with inner and outer surfaces, the inner surfaces delimiting a waveguide channel, wherein a cross-section of the channel has two straight sides joined together by two half-portions, at least one of the two half-portions being rounded or formed of at least two straight segments, the cross-section having a maximum length (a) and a maximum width (b), the ratio between the maximum length (a)/maximum width (b) being between 2.05 and 3.5, preferably between 2.05 and 2.4.

Abstract: Waveguide device (1) for guiding a radio frequency signal at a given frequency f, the device (1) including: a core (3) manufactured by additive manufacturing and including side walls with inner and outer surfaces (7, 8), the inner surfaces (7) delimiting a waveguide channel (2), wherein a cross-section of the channel (2) has two straight sides joined together by two half-portions, at least one of the two half-portions being rounded or formed of at least two straight segments the cross-section having a maximum length (a) and a maximum width (b), the ratio between the maximum length (a)/maximum width (b) being between 2.05 and 3.5, preferably between 2.05 and 2.4.

Abstract: Radiofrequency module, including: a first layer including an array of radiating elements, each radiating element having a cross section for supporting at least one wave propagation mode, a second layer forming an array of waveguides; a fourth layer forming an array of ports; the second layer being interposed between the first and the fourth layer; each waveguide being connected to a port on the one hand and to a radiating element on the other hand for transmitting a radiofrequency signal between this port and this radiating element; the spacing between two ports being different from the spacing between the radiating elements, so that the surface area of the first layer is different from the surface area of the fourth layer; the waveguides being curved.

Abstract: A waveguide filter having a core including an external face and internal faces defining a channel for filtering and guiding the waves. The channel includes several slots, each having a first and a second face. The first face is inclined in relation to the second face. A method for manufacturing the waveguide filter.

Abstract: An orthomode transducer including a first Boifot junction and a second Boifot junction. Each of the first and second Boifot junctions includes a dual polarized port, a first lateral port, a second lateral port, the first and second lateral port being single polarized, and a third single polarized port along the propagation direction of a signal in the dual polarized port. A first power divider for coupling the first lateral port of the first Boifot junction with the first lateral port of the second Boifot junction to a third port. A second power divider for coupling the second lateral port of the first Boifot junction with the second lateral port of the second Boifot junction to a third port. A third power divider for coupling the third port of the first power divider with the third port of the second power divider to a fourth single polarization port.

Abstract: Radiofrequency module, including: a first layer including an array of radiating elements, each radiating element having a cross section for supporting at least one wave propagation mode, a second layer forming an array of waveguides; a fourth layer forming an array of ports; the second layer being interposed between the first and the fourth layer; each waveguide being connected to a port on the one hand and to a radiating element on the other hand for transmitting a radiofrequency signal between this port and this radiating element; the spacing between two ports being different from the spacing between the radiating elements, so that the surface area of the first layer is different from the surface area of the fourth layer; the waveguides being curved.

Abstract: A method for producing a waveguide device, including producing a core of a non-conductive material. The core has side walls with outer surfaces and inner surfaces, the inner surfaces defining a waveguide channel. A layer of conductive metal is deposited on the inner surfaces by immersion in a fluid of reactants. The core includes at least one hole between the outer and inner surfaces, specifically used to encourage the removal of bubbles from the channel and/or the circulation of the fluid during the immersion.

Abstract: A passive radiofrequency device includes a core formed by the gluing of multiple parts in direct contact against one another. At least one of the parts includes a housing for glue. At least some of the parts are manufactured individually by additive manufacturing. A conductive metal jacket surrounds the core without separating the parts from one another.

Abstract: A waveguide device for guiding a radio frequency signal at a determined frequency f, the device including a body having side walls with outer surfaces and inner surfaces, the inner surfaces defining a waveguide channel. A conductive layer covers the inner surface of the body, the conductive layer being formed of a metal having a skin depth ? at frequency f. The conductive layer has a thickness at least twenty times as large as the skin depth ?.