Application of ‘C’ section based left-handed transmission lines for coupling enhancement of coupled-line directional couplers

Author(s):  
Ilona Piekarz ◽  
Jakub Sorocki ◽  
Izabela Slomian ◽  
Slawomir Gruszczynski ◽  
Krzysztof Wincza
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 580-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Sorocki ◽  
Kamil Staszek ◽  
Ilona Piekarz ◽  
Krzysztof Wincza ◽  
Slawomir Gruszczynski

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Sorocki ◽  
Kamil Staszek ◽  
Ilona Piekarz ◽  
Krzysztof Wincza ◽  
Slawomir Gruszczynski

A method allowing for reduction of coupling coefficients required for realization of two-section asymmetrical coupled-line directional couplers has been proposed. It has been shown that by connecting uncoupled left-handed and right-handed transmission lines between two coupled-line sections one can obtain greater design flexibility of the resulting circuit, simultaneously with the coupling reduction in coupled-line sections. Moreover, the proposed circuit features the properties of two-section asymmetric directional couplers offering wide operational bandwidth. The theoretical analysis has been verified by measurements of a 3 dB directional coupler operating at the center frequency f0 = 1.5 GHz having coupling imbalance δC = ±0.4 dB and bandwidth 0.75–2.3 GHz.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-513
Author(s):  
Jakub Sorocki ◽  
Ilona Piekarz ◽  
Krzysztof Wincza ◽  
Slawomir Gruszczynski

Novel impedance transforming directional couplers are proposed in which the achievable impedance transformation ratio is increased above the previously reported limit related to coupling of the coupled-line sections. The proposed couplers consist of two coupled-line sections between which uncoupled sections of left-handed lines are connected. The presented concept has been verified by circuit simulations as well as by measurements of the manufactured 3-dB coupled-line impedance transforming directional coupler operating at f0 = 1.2 GHz and featuring twofold increased impedance transformation ratio R = 4.


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 20502
Author(s):  
Behrokh Beiranvand ◽  
Alexander S. Sobolev ◽  
Anton V. Kudryashov

We present a new concept of the thermoelectric structure that generates microwave and terahertz signals when illuminated by femtosecond optical pulses. The structure consists of a series array of capacitively coupled thermocouples. The array acts as a hybrid type microwave transmission line with anomalous dispersion and phase velocity higher than the velocity of light. This allows for adding up the responces from all the thermocouples in phase. The array is easily integrable with microstrip transmission lines. Dispersion curves obtained from both the lumped network scheme and numerical simulations are presented. The connection of the thermocouples is a composite right/left-handed transmission line, which can receive terahertz radiation from the transmission line ports. The radiation of the photon to the surface of the thermocouple structure causes a voltage difference with the bandwidth of terahertz. We examined a lossy composite right/left-handed transmission line to extract the circuit elements. The calculated properties of the design are extracted by employing commercial software package CST STUDIO SUITE.


2014 ◽  
Vol E97.C (10) ◽  
pp. 965-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi KAWAI ◽  
Yuma SUMITOMO ◽  
Akira ENOKIHARA ◽  
Isao OHTA ◽  
Kei SATOH ◽  
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