Investigation of Waveguide Y-Junction Circulator with a Triangular Ferrite Post

An H-plane waveguide Y-junction circulator with a triangular ferrite post is investigated by a modified analysis of jointly resonance theory and simple field theory. Good agreement between the theoretical obtained performances and experimental results is observed. The circulator exhibits a very low insertion loss and a wide bandwidth.     

A new design method of H-plane waveguide circulator

A new method to design the partial height ferrite posts of H-plane waveguide circulator for given frequencies is presented. Agreements between calculated design results and experiment values in [1] and our MMW waveguide circulators are obtained.     

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.     

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.     

Efficient Analysis of Millimeter Wave Ferrite Circulators by the GMRES Iterative Algorithm

The finite element method (FEM) combined with the perfectly matched layers (PML) is given for simulation of waveguide ferrite circulators. The generalized minimal residual (GMRES) iterative method is applied to solve such sparse large non-symmetric system of linear equations resulting from the use of edge-based finite element method. The formulation of FEM and the algorithm of GMRES method are described in detail. The reflection and insertion losses of millimeter wave waveguide circulator are analyzed and the results are compared with those obtained from literature.     

Design and simulation of self-biased circulators in the ultra high frequency band

Theoretical models were developed to design self-biased Y-junction circulators operating at ultra high frequency (UHF). The proposed circulator designs consist of insulating nanowires of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) embedded in high permittivity barium-strontium titanate (BSTO) substrates. A design with as many as 10⁵ or greater wires may be considered in its entirety to determine the electromagnetic scattering S-parameters of a circulator design, thus helping to mitigate the computational limitations of the available finite element method (FEM) tools. The approach seeks to represent the nanowires and the BSTO substrate by an equivalent medium with effective properties inclusive of the average saturation magnetization, dynamic demagnetizing fields, and permittivity. The effective medium approach was validated in comparison with the FEM models. Using the proposed approach, a self-biased junction circulator consisting of YIG nanowires embedded in a BSTO substrate was designed and simulated in which the center frequency insertion loss was calculated to be as low as 0.16 dB with isolation of −42.3 dB at 1 GHz. The 20 dB bandwidth was calculated to be 50 MHz. These results suggest that practical self-biased circulators at the UHF band are feasible.     

A compound high power millimeter wave waveguide circulator

In this paper, a high power millimeter wave waveguide Y-junction circulator, which is compound in structure, has been analyzed and developed. Its enduring power attains 60 W CW-power and the temperature of the waveguide surface does not exceed 25 degree centigrade under natural coolness.     

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.     

Vector-FEM Analysis of Millimeter Wave Circulator with SOC Truncation Technique

In this paper, the application of the edge-based vector finite element method combined with the short-open calibration (SOC) technique to waveguide junction circulators was presented. By applying permittivity and permeability tensors, the functional formula for tetrahedral vector elements are analytically derived in terms of the electric field strength. And the SOC technique is directly accommodated in the FEM algorithm and used to truncate the computational domain. The SOC technique removes or separates unwanted parasitics brought by the approximation of the impressed voltage source and also the problem of resulting inconsistency between different simulations. Truncation of computational domain by SOC technique makes the iterative solvers for large-sparse linear matrix equations from FEM converge much faster than by perfectly matching layers (PML). The analysis of three 2-port networks is sufficient to form the admittance matrix of the corresponding three-port waveguide junction circulators. To validate the theory, typical three-dimensional numerical results of isotropic dielectric-filled discontinuity are first presented and compared with other hybrid numerical techniques. Further, the ferrite filled waveguide junction circulators are analysed and compared with the measured and available publications. The comparison shows that good agreement is obtained.     

Analysis and experiments of the 3mm-band higher order modes waveguide Y-junction circulators

Based on the boundary value solution of electromagnetic fields, a calculated results of the 3mm-band higher order modes waveguide Y-junction cirulators, which are given with the frequency dependence of the eigenvalues of the junction scattering matrix, are presented for the first time. It has been verified exactly by the experiments. Using the higher order modes. the bandwidth of the circulators can be expanded.     

大功率铁磁性微波部件微放电演变机理与抑制

铁氧体环行器是承载航天器微波系统大功率的关键器件,其大功率微放电效应是影响航天器在轨安全、可靠运行的瓶颈问题。从影响微放电效应的关键因素——二次电子发射特性出发,提出铁磁性微波部件微放电效应物理演变模型,揭示了铁磁性微波部件内部初始自由电子与二次电子运动的空间规律;通过改变铁磁性微波部件表面二次电子发射特性,揭示了铁磁性微波部件抗微放电优化设计的物理原理。在S频段铁氧体环行器中验证了基于表面二次电子发射特性的微放电效应抑制,将器件的微放电阈值从380 W提高至3400 W以上,提升效率大于900%。     

Linear guidance properties of solitonic Y-junction waveguides

A linear Y-junction waveguide device is designed using a generalization of the theory of solitonic potentials for the linear Schrödinger equation. This Y-junction device, unlike other adiabatic Y-junctions, has the advantage that it may be directly written into a planar medium with homogeneous saturable nonlinearity by a strong light beam. The generalized theory provides the error terms that are introduced when the parameters of a solitonic potential are allowed to vary in the propagation direction, and shows that under certain adiabaticity conditions the error is small although the deformation of the potential is significant. At the operating wavelength for which the device is designed to function optimally, the Y-junction has two approximate bound modes that we find explicitly. Each mode has the property that when it is excited at the neck of the junction, it exits in only one of the two output ports. In this way, the device functions like a standard modal splitter in a multimode slab waveguide. When the wavelength is detuned, modal beating is introduced that degrades the optimal switching characteristics. We describe this effect in terms of four universal coupling functions using perturbation theory.     

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.     

Application of Preconditioned GMRES Algorithm for Analysis of Millimeter Wave Ferrite Sphere Circulators

The generalized minimal residual (GMRES) iterative method is applied to solve such sparse large non-symmetric system of linear equations resulting from the use of edge-based finite element method. In order to speed up the convergence of GMRES, the symmetric successive overrelaxation (SSOR) preconditioning scheme is applied for the analysis of millimeter wave ferrite circulator. Consequently, this preconditioned GMRES (PGMRES) approach can reach convergence 19 times faster than GMRES. The isolation and insertion losses of millimeter wave waveguide circulator are compared with those obtained from literature.     

Application of Preconditioned GMRES Algorithm for Analysis of Millimeter Wave Ferrite Sphere Circulators

The generalized minimal residual (GMRES) iterative method is applied to solve such sparse large non-symmetric system of linear equations resulting from the use of edge-based finite element method. In order to speed up the convergence of GMRES, the symmetric successive overrelaxation (SSOR) preconditioning scheme is applied for the analysis of millimeter wave ferrite circulator. Consequently, this preconditioned GMRES (PGMRES) approach can reach convergence ten times faster than GMRES. The reflection and insertion losses of millimeter wave waveguide circulator are compared with those obtained from literature.     

Effect of the substrate on the ferromagnetic resonance linewidth in barium ferrite films

A theory for the interaction of a ferrite film on a substrate with the short-circuit waveguide field has been developed. The relations explaining the effect of the substrate on the parameters of resonant absorption of the energy of the exciting field have been derived. The results of analysis of ferromagnetic resonance in barium ferrite films are presented. The films prepared in a special way have the shape of small disks on rectangular substrates. It is found that the width of the resonance curve noticeably depends on the disk diameter.     

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.     

Photonic crystal optical switch using a new slow light waveguide and heterostructure Y-junctions

In this paper we propose a photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on a new coupled-cavity waveguide, where its advantage over the previous type of photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguide is discussed. A heterostructure Y-junction is comprised of square and hexagonal lattices of the new coupled-cavity waveguide. It is designed by applying the temporal coupled-mode theory and is optimized, where an overall throughput efficiency of more than 90% is achieved at the wavelength of 1.55 μm. The design of the Y-junction is performed using finite-difference time-domain method. The designed heterostructure Y-junction is used in the structure of a MZI, where its arms are approximately as short as 24 μm. Finally, the transient response of the proposed optical switch is investigated.     

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.