Abstract: An overmoded dielectric-lined waveguide, particularly for the 0.03 to 3 terahertz frequency range, is disclosed with performance advantages relative to prior dielectric-lined waveguides, cost and size advantages relative to corrugated waveguides, and with coupling, bandwidth, and cost advantages relative to micro-structured-fiber waveguides. The waveguide comprises a single-clad flexible microwave laminate rolled into a cylinder with said copper surface on an outside of said guide tube and said dielectric surface on an inside of said guide tube. The rolled laminate is supported inside a metal tube. The same method of achieving the structure needed for efficient guiding of HE11 mode may be applied to a conical tube to make a low-cost efficient overmoded tapered waveguide transition for the 0.03-3 THz range.

Abstract: This document a two-part folded waveguide with horns. For example, a waveguide includes a channel with an opening in a longitudinal direction at one end, and a sinusoidal shape that folds back and forth about a longitudinal axis that runs in the longitudinal direction through the channel. One part of the waveguide defines a surface of the channel featuring a plurality of radiation slots in the shape of a horn, which allows the two parts of the waveguide to be arranged and configured as one component. A first part of the waveguide has slots and an upper half of the walls of the channel and a second part provides a lower half of the walls of the channel and a surface of the channel opposite the slots. Using horns in combination with two parts enables ease of manufacturing a waveguide with an internal channel having a folded or sinusoidal shape.

Abstract: This document describes a single-layer air waveguide antenna integrated on a circuit board. The waveguide guides electromagnetic energy through channels filled with air. It is formed from a single layer of material, such as a sheet of metal, metal-coated plastic, or other material with conductive surfaces that is attached to a circuit board. A portion of a surface of the circuit board is configured as a floor of the channels filled with air. This floor is an electrical interface between the circuit board and the channels filled with air. The single layer of material is positioned atop this electrical interface to define walls and a ceiling of the channels filled with air. The single layer of material can be secured to the circuit board in various ways. The cost of integrating an air waveguide antenna on to a circuit board this way may be less expensive than other waveguide-manufacturing techniques.

Abstract: A directional coupler includes a main line, a sub-line, a coupling terminal, a terminal circuit, a first switching circuit, and a second switching circuit. The first switching circuit and the second switching circuit respectively connects the first end and the second end of the sub-line alternately to the coupling terminal and to the terminal circuit. The first switching circuit connects the first end to the coupling terminal at a time that differs from a time at which the first switching circuit disconnects the first end from the terminal circuit. The first switching circuit disconnects the first end from the coupling terminal at a time that differs from a time at which the first switching circuit connects the first end to the terminal circuit.

Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems utilizing a high-isolation transition design for differential signal ports. A differential input transition structure includes a first layer and a second layer made of a conductive metal and a substrate positioned between the first and second layers. The second layer includes a first section that electrically connects to a single-ended signal contact point and to a first contact point of a differential signal port. The first section includes a first stub based on an input impedance of the single-ended signal contact point and a second stub based on a differential input impedance associated with the differential signal port. The second layer includes a second section that electrically connects to a second contact point of the differential signal port and to the first layer through a via housed in a pad. The second section includes a third stub associated with the differential input impedance.

Abstract: A pillbox-type RF window having an input/output window in a microwave tube, the pillbox-type RF window includes a disc-shaped member having a metallization layer formed on an outer peripheral portion of a disc-shaped ceramic body; a pair of ring-shaped members constituted by metal bodies having substantially the same outer diameters as the disc-shaped member, arranged to sandwich the disc-shaped member from both sides, and integrated with the outer peripheral portion of the disc-shaped member; a tube-shaped member constituted by a metal body having an inner diameter substantially equal to the outer diameters of the pair of ring-shaped members and the disc-shaped member, for holding the pair of metal components and the disc-shaped member on an inside thereof; and a restriction member for suppressing rotation between the ring-shaped members and the tube-shaped member.

Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a line portion and a connecting portion. The transmission line substrate includes a base material, a first ground conductor, a second ground conductor, a signal line, an external electrode, a second interlayer connection conductor. In the line portion, a transmission line having a strip line structure including the signal line, the first ground conductor, and the second ground conductor is provided. In the connecting portion, the signal line and the external electrode face each other in a stacking direction, without including therebetween an interlayer connection conductor. The second interlayer connection conductor surrounds a facing portion in which the signal line and the external electrode face each other in the Z-axis direction.

Abstract: A signal processing device may include a feeding apparatus having a first conductor configured to transmit a radio frequency signal; an insulating medium covering the first conductor; and a second conductor covering the insulating medium. The conductor may have first, second, and third portions. The third portion of the first conductor may be configured to be connected to the target apparatus to feed the radio frequency signal to the target apparatus and configured to form a capacitive impedance with the target apparatus, and the second portion of the first conductor may be configured to form an inductive impedance with the target apparatus. An absolute value of a sum of the capacitive impedance and the inductive impedance may be less than or equal to a preset impedance threshold.

Abstract: A wireless communication system including a shield room forming section, leaky transmission line, first antenna, first device, second antenna and second device. The shield room forming section covers an internal space with an electromagnetic wave reflector that blocks wireless communication. The leaky transmission line is provided with first and second leakage parts arranged inside the shield room forming section. The first antenna is arranged inside the shield room forming section and configured to be wirelessly communicable with the first leakage part. The first device is arranged inside the shield room forming section and has the first antenna. The second antenna is arranged inside the shield room forming section and configured to be wirelessly communicable with the second leakage part. The second device is arranged inside the shield room forming section and has the second antenna. The first device and the second device perform direct two-way wireless communication with each-other.

Abstract: A surface mount constructed millimeter wave transceiver device and methods of making a surface mount constructed millimeter wave transceiver device are disclosed. The transceiver device includes a printed circuit board having a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port. A diplexer is surface mounted to a first side of the printed circuit board, the diplexer comprising a low frequency waveguide port and a high frequency waveguide port each coupled to an antenna port. A transmitter and a receiver are surface mounted to a second side of the printed circuit board, located opposite the first side of the printed circuit board, wherein the transmitter and the receiver comprise a transmitter waveguide port and a receiver waveguide port, respectively, that are configured to be aligned to the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port of the printed circuit board, respectively.

Abstract: There is provided a phase shifter including a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate includes a first base and a first electrode layer on a side, of the first base, the second substrate includes a second base, a second electrode layer and a reference voltage leading-in end on a side of the second base, the reference voltage leading-in end is coupled to the second electrode layer, one of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer includes a body structure and branch structures; an orthographic projection of an end of each branch structure away from the body structure on the first base is overlapped with an orthographic projection of the second electrode layer or the first electrode layer on the first base. An antenna is further provided.

Abstract: Microwave photonic devices use light to carry and process microwave signals over a photonic link. Light can be used as a stimulus to microwave devices that directly control microwave signals. Previous optically controlled devices suffer from large footprint, high optical power level required for switching, lack of scalability and complex integration requirements, restricting their implementation in practical microwave systems. Disclosed are monolithic optically reconfigurable integrated microwave switches (MORIMSs) built on a CMOS compatible silicon photonic chip. The disclosed scalable micrometer-scale switches provide higher switching efficiency and operate using optical power that is orders of magnitude lower than previous devices. The disclosed devices and techniques provide examples of silicon photonic platforms integrating microwave circuitry.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for signal communication. This signal communication apparatus includes a waveguide with an internal channel. The internal channel includes a plurality of channel segments interconnected at a junction. The waveguide includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface partially form a peripheral boundary of the internal channel at the junction. The first surface meets the second surface at a first corner. The first surface is angularly offset from the second surface by an obtuse angle.

Abstract: A waveguide assembly comprising a first waveguide, and a second waveguide designed as a dielectric multimodal waveguide, and a waveguide transition for transmitting an electromagnetic wave between the first waveguide and the second waveguide, the waveguide transition having a dielectric waveguide piece which is between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The dielectric waveguide piece is capable of guiding a smaller mode number than the second waveguide, at least in a front section, facing the first waveguide.

Abstract: An electromagnetic coupler including: a substrate; and a first conductor mounted to the substrate for receiving a first electromagnetic signal, the first conductor having a first multiple arcuate edge; a second conductor mounted to the substrate, the second conductor being spaced apart from the first conductor and having a second multiple arcuate edge that is opposed to the first edge for generating in the second conductor a second electromagnetic signal that is derived from the first electromagnetic signal.

Abstract: A Substrate Integrated Wave (SIW) coupled to a Suspended Substrate Stripline (SSS) filter for introducing a notch response has a substrate having metal layers formed on a top surface and a bottom surface thereof. A filter circuit is formed on the top surface of the substrate. A top ground plate is provided and has an air cavity formed on a bottom surface of the top ground plate. The air cavity on the top ground plate is positioned directly above the filter circuit when the top ground plate is positioned on the top surface of the substrate. A bottom ground plate is provided and has an air cavity formed on a top surface of the bottom ground plate. The air cavity on the bottom ground plate is positioned directly below the filter circuit when the bottom ground plate is positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate. A SIW cavity resonator is coupled to the filter circuit by means of an aperture to create a notch response in the SSS filter.

Abstract: A transmission line member includes a base body extending along a transmission direction of a high-frequency signal, and a first transmission line, a second transmission line, and a third transmission line. The base body includes a first portion including the first transmission line, a second portion including the second transmission line, and a third portion including the third transmission line. The second portion is connected between the first and third portions. A thickness of the second portion is smaller than a thickness of the first and third portions. The second transmission line includes only a conductor pattern extending more in the transmission direction than in a direction of the thickness.

Abstract: A printed circuit board is provided, comprising a horizontally extending dielectric substrate and a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) having at least one ridge. The SIW comprises two horizontally disposed conductive ground planes spaced by a vertical distance, and two vertically disposed conductive fences spanning therebetween. The fences extend in a first horizontal direction, and are spaced from one another in a second horizontal direction, perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. At least one of the fences comprises a plurality of horizontally disposed conductive strips vertically spaced from one another and extending in the first horizontal direction. At least some of the conductive strips are ridge-strips constituting the ridge and extending in the second horizontal direction toward the other of the fences.

Abstract: A ceramic waveguide filter comprises a plurality of resonant cavities defined by a plurality of through partition walls formed in a single ceramic block to divide sections of the ceramic block according to a pre-designated pattern, a plurality of resonant recesses formed in the sections of the plurality of resonant cavities divided by the through partition walls, a metal layer formed on an inner surface of each of the plurality of through partition walls, and input/output interfaces formed in two resonant cavities inputting and outputting signals among the plurality of resonant cavities.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a waveguide assembly includes a first waveguide portion having a first end, a second end, and a first waveguide channel extending between the first end and the second end, and a second waveguide portion having a first end, a second end, and a second waveguide channel extending between the first end and the second end, wherein the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion are configured to connect such that the first waveguide channel and the second waveguide channel form a combined channel, wherein the combined channel includes a gap interface between the first waveguide channel and the second waveguide channel.