On the Modified Resonance Theory of Waveguide Circulator with Various Ferrite Specimens

A modified resonance theory of waveguide circulator with ferrite specimen is presented. The kernal of this theory is a two-step analysis method of an H-plane Y-junction waveguide circulator. For the first step, the ferrite specimens of Y-junction waveguide circulators are treated as if it were dielectric resonators with no magnetic bias. This simplistic approach is used to design the ferrite specimens of the circulators. Simple formulas are developed for determining the center frequency of the circulators. For the second step, wave circulation is made possible when a pair of degenerate resonance modes experiences different changes when the ferrite specimens are being magnetized. A modified analysis of joint resonance theory and simple field theory is advanced to evaluate the performances of the circulators. Good agreements between the analytically obtained performance and experimental result of various MMW waveguide circulators are observed.     

Development of the Microstrip Circulator with a Magnetized Ferrite Sphere in Millimeter Wave Band

In this paper, a novel microstrip circulator with a magnetized ferrite sphere is proposed for various millimeter wave communications. A three-dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) approach for the analysis of this ferrite sphere based microstrip circulator is first presented. The electromagnetic fields inside the ferrite junction are calculated using special updating equations derived from the equation of motion of the magnetization vector and Maxwell's curl equations in consistency. Frequency dependent insertion loss, isolation and reflection loss of circulator are calculated over a wide band of frequencies with a single FDTD run. Experimental results at Ka band are presented and compared with theoretical simulations. As a result, a good agreement is found between them.     

低温共烧陶瓷铁氧体环行器的设计与分析

基于叠层片式化结构对工作于S波段的低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)铁氧体环行器进行设计和分析,模拟研究了器件制备中面临的关键问题对器件频率特性的影响。研究结果表明,采用微波铁氧体层与陶瓷介质层构成混合结构,匹配电路以三维方式进行布线和互联,器件可以获得优良的带内特性。在器件的三维电路布线中,当连接两节阻抗线的导体圆柱端口气隙高度达到20μm时,器件的传输特性和隔离特性急剧恶化。此外,研究还发现微波铁氧体层与陶瓷介质层出现分层时,形成的气隙高度不应大于20μm,否则将导致器件的传输特性和隔离特性显著降低。因此,在进行LTCC铁氧体环行器的制备时,导体圆柱与陶瓷介质层以及微波铁氧体层与陶瓷介质层的异质材料匹配共烧是保障器件优良性能的关键。     

CAD of Millimeter Wave Y-Junction Circulators with a Ferrite Sphere

A gradient optimization technique along with a definition of cost function is applied to the CAD of the circulator with a magnetized ferrite sphere for millimeter wave communications. A three-dimensional Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) approach for the analysis of this ferrite sphere based microstrip circulator is presented. The topology of the structure is enforced at each step of optimization and its physical dimensions are used as optimization variables. The cost function is defined using location of zeros and poles of the circulator's transmission, isolation, and reflection functions. Numerical tests show that the optimization process converges from an arbitrarily selected starting point with the new definition of the cost function.     

Analysis of the H-Plane T-Junction Millimeter Wave Waveguide Circulator with a Ferrite Sphere

This paper presents an approximate but efficient field treatment of the new easy-to-fabricate ferrite sphere based H-plane waveguide circulator for potentially low-cost millimeter wave communication systems. A new three-dimension modeling strategy using a self-inconsistent mixed coordinates based mode matching technique is developed, i.e. the solutions of the Helmholz wave equations in the ferrite sphere and in the surrounding areas are deduced in the form of infinite summation of spherical, cylindrical and general Cartesian modes respectively. The point matching method is then used on the interface to numerically obtain the coefficients of different orders basis functions of the field. Therefore, the field distributions as well as the characteristics of the circulator are numerically calculated and the good agreement is observed between the numerical results and the measured data.     

Millimeter wave microstrip circulator

A new and unique microstrip drop-in type Y-junction circulator has been designed and developed for operation in the millimeter wave frequency region. This device utilizes NiZn ferrite as the gyromagnetic material which is mounted on a duroid substrate.     

Analysis and design of a new type NRD-guide E-plane Y-junction circulator

A new type of E-plane Y-junction circulator has been developed based on the nonradiative dielectric waveguide (NRD-guide) in Ka- band. First, the circulation principle has been analysed by the theory of polarization wave. The field components in the nonreciprocal Y-junction zone and the conclusion of 60° phase difference between clockwise and counterclockwise rotating polarization modes has been obtained. And then, the resonant frequency of the non-dc biased triangle ferrite sample has also been calculated. This kind of structure is benefit to enlarge the bandwidth of the Y-junction circulator. As an example, we had designed and fabricated a circulator in Ka-band. Its operating frequency is 35. 1GHz, the 1.5dB insertion loss and 20dB isolation bandwidth is about 1. 0GHz.     

棱镜分光式光学环行器及其应用

本文介绍梭镜分光式光学环行器设计理论与制备工艺以及在光纤通信和光纤传感系统中的应用。所研制的光学环行器光纤-光纤(单模)插入损耗小于2.8dB,隔离比大于25dB,回波损耗优于40dB.器件性能与偏振无关。     

双通道三端口反射式光环行器 结构与特性分析

为了降低广泛应用于光通信系统的光环行器的制造成本和占空比，增强系统中各器件的功能复用，提出一种功能复用反射式光环行器设计方案，利用透镜和反射镜组成光的空间交叉功能来实现功能复用以及光束方向传输引导，从而达到反射式光环行器输入 输出多尾纤之间的对应耦合。利用琼斯矩阵，从理论上对其主要性能进行了分析。分析结果表明，设计的光环行器在功能复用基础上具有低插入损耗、高隔离等特性，达到了光环行器的性能指标，在低插入损耗、高隔离的基础上具有功能复用效用。     

Analysis of the injection-locked magnetron with a mismatched circulator

Based on the scatter matrix of the four-port lossless mismatched circulator, the phase differential equation of the injection-locked magnetron is derived by comparing different effects of the mismatched and perfect circulator on the injection ratio. Besides, the locking range of the injection-locked magnetron with the mismatched circulator is deduced by functional operation. In addition, the phase differential equation and the locked bandwidth of the injection-locked system with a mismatched circulator are compared with those of the small injection-ratio case with a perfect circulator. The influence of the circulator reflection coefficient on the injection-locked magnetron is also analyzed by numerical calculation.Theoretical analysis shows that the decrement of the locked bandwidth is less than 1% and decrement of the stable phase difference is less than 1.2% when the reflection coefficient is less than 0.1.     

W Band Circular Waveguide Y-Junction Circulator

In this paper, a new type of W band circular waveguide Y-junction circulator is presented. The structure of this type of Y-junction is a cylindrical cavity connecting with three circular waveguides. The performances of the type of circulator are analyzed by the edge-based vector finite element method hybridized with the modal expansion. The numerical results show that this type of waveguide Y junction circulator has good circulation performance.     

1.3μm光学环行器正向损耗及反向隔离比的理论及实验研究

在理论及实验上分析了影响光环行器插入损耗及反向隔离比的因素,讨论了环行器中起、检偏镜参数对其性能的影响.结果表明,起、检偏镜的各组参数存在最佳选择,以保证环行器具有低插损、高隔离比及与偏振无关的特性.作者研制的环行器正向损耗小于1dB,反向隔离比在25.5dB与28dB之间.     

A mm-wave four-port quasi-optical circulator

A four-port quasi-optical circulator has been designed, built and tested for operation in the millimetre wave band. The specific circulator reported here was investigated over a 20 GHz bandwidth, centred on 94 GHz. Good performance characteristics were obtained over this bandwidth. Isolations of better than 30 dB and insertion losses of around 0.5 dB were achieved. The input vswr was found to be less than 1.35 over the whole bandwidth investigated and vswr's of less than 1.1 were achieved for narrower bandwidths. It is possible of course to configure the 4-port circulator as a 3-port circulator or indeed as 2-port isolator. Further optimization and consequent improvements in performance are almost certainly obtainable.     

H-plane cross-shaped waveguide circulator in magneto-photonic crystals with five ferrite posts

A novel H-plane cross-shaped circulator based on magneto-photonic crystals is experimentally investigated.The band gap of the TE mode for the photonic crystals is calculated by the plane wave expansion method.The transmission characteristics of the circulator are simulated by the finite element method.We perform the experiments in the microwave regime to validate the numerical results.At the central frequency of 10.15 GHz,the measured isolation and insertion loss of the circulator reaches-30.2 and-3.93 d B,respectively.The bandwidth of the circulator is about 550 MHz.The optimal experimental value of isolation is higher than the numerical value.     

A ferrite sphere Y-junction waveguide circular

A novel 4-mm waveguide circulator with a ferrite sphere is presented. The operation modes and frequency splits of the circulator are also discussed, and agreement between the predicted center frequencies and experiment values is obtained.     

Observations of Phase Locking in a Single-Cavity Gyrotron Oscillator

Observations of phase locking in a single-cavity gyrotron oscillator operating at 35 GHz are reported. Injection of the locking power was made via a circulator into the gyrotron output guide. Locking was observed with input power levels as low as 35 dB below the gyrotron power. For low input powers, good agreement is found with theory based on lumped-element circuit modeling and a new distributed oscillator model.     

X波段叠层片式微带铁氧体环行器的设计

采用叠层片式化设计有望实现微波环形器与低温共烧陶瓷(LTCC)技术的结合。借助三维电磁仿真手段设计了一种X波段微带铁氧体环行器,基片采用具有不同饱和磁化强度的旋磁材料构成叠层片式结构。研究结果表明,叠片数目及其饱和磁化强度的搭配对环形器的回波损耗和隔离度特性影响显著,这与叠层结构引入的界面及叠片变化的饱和磁化强度影响了环形器的等效输入电路参数有关。通过优化设计,可以获得具有高回波损耗、高隔离度及低插入损耗等优良性能的器件,但带宽受叠片数目及其饱和磁化强度的搭配影响较小,难以通过优化进行拓展。     

All-optical circulator based on cross phase modulation in a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer

We show that by exploiting unequal magnitude of cross phase modulation (XPM) in co-propagating and counter-propagating beams, an all-optical circulator (AOC) using a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) could be constructed. The proposed circulator is novel, simple and polarization independent.     

Compact three-port optical two-dimensional photonic crystal-based circulator of W-format

A three-port optical circulator of W-format based on 2D photonic crystal is presented. This circulator is more compact as compared to the known one of the traditional Y-format. The W-circulator does not have rotational symmetry. As a consequence, the frequency responses for different port excitation are slightly different, as it is shown by symmetry analysis and by numerical simulations.     

Magneto-optical defects in two-dimensional photonic crystals

We analyze the properties of magneto-optical defect states in two-dimensional photonic crystals. With out-of-plane magnetization, the magneto-optical coupling splits doubly-degenerate TE states into two counter-rotating modes at different frequencies. The strength of magneto-optical coupling strongly depends on the spatial overlap of the cavity domain structures and the cross product of the modal fields. The transport property of the resultant nonreciprocal states is demonstrated in a junction circulator structure with a magneto-optical cavity coupled to three waveguides. By a proper matching of the magneto-optical frequency splitting with the cavity decay rate into the waveguide, ideal three-port circulator characteristics with complete isolation and transmission can be achieved, with an operational bandwidth proportional to the magneto-optical constant. The proposed optical circulator in a bismuth-iron-garnet/air photonic crystal is demonstrated with finite-difference time-domain calculations and is compared to an alternative implementation of silicon/air crystal infiltrated with a single bismuth-iron-garnet domain.