Hybrid dielectric slab beam waveguide

Details Hybrid dielectric slab beam waveguide Hybrid dielectric slab beam waveguide

1994-06-10

1996-06-18

Ngo, John

Optical waveguides

Planar optical waveguide

G02B 600

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active

055287174

ABSTRACT:
A slab dielectric waveguide for the millimeter and sub-millimeter wave regions is achieved by providing a thin grounded dielectric slab of rectangular cross-section into which a sequence of equally spaced cylindrical lenses are fabricated. The axis of these lenses coincides with the center line of the slab guide, i.e. the propagation direction of the guide. The spacing of the lenses S is assumed to be on the order of many guide wavelengths .lambda.; the width of the slabguide w is on the order of at least several .lambda.; and the thickness d of the guide typically is sufficiently small so that only the fundamental surface wave mode can exist on the slab. If the permittivity of the lenses exceeds that of the guide, the lenses will have a convex shape and in the opposite case, the lenses will have a concave shape. As those skilled in the art will appreciate, the concave shape will simplify the fabrication of guide and will reduce its diffraction losses.

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Y. C. Shih et al, "Transmission Lines and Waveguides", Antenna Handbook by . T. Lo et al, Editors, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988, chap. 28.
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Felix Schwering et al, "A Hybrid Dielectric Slab-Bema Waveguide for the Sub-Millimeter Wave Region", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 41, No. 10, Oct. 1993.

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