A novel method about 0.14THz power divider based on 3dB directional coupler

Xiaoke Kang; Peng Chen; Xianjin Deng; Zhang Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2032636

23 August 2013 A novel method about 0.14THz power divider based on 3dB directional coupler

Xiaoke Kang, Peng Chen, Xianjin Deng, Zhang Chen

Proceedings Volume 8909, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Terahertz Technologies and Applications; 890908 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032636
Event: ISPDI 2013 - Fifth International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging, 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

This paper presents a new method about 0.14THz power divider based on 3 dB directional coupler. As THz device’s dimension is micro-miniature, especially the key structure such as power divider’s, it is extraordinary difficult to fabricate by precise machining. Traditional 3dB directional coupler has 90° electric bridge structure, whose length between coupler slots is only less than 0.5mm. This size nearly cannot bear the machining stress in processing. By means of analyzing the phase relationship between the direction coupler’s branches, it is known that if the length between coupler slots increases only half-wave length’s integermultiple, the phase contrast between branches is still 90°. As a result, the bandwidth is sacrificed. Since the dimension of coupling slot increases, this structure makes precise machining easy, and it has a band width about 10% at least yet. Analysis of simulation result provides the verification. The measured insert loss from 0.133THz to 0.147THz is less than 1dB, and the return loss is less than -20dB.

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Xiaoke Kang, Peng Chen, Xianjin Deng, and Zhang Chen "A novel method about 0.14THz power divider based on 3dB directional coupler", Proc. SPIE 8909, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: Terahertz Technologies and Applications, 890908 (23 August 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032636

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