2009-10-16
Experiment and Simulation on Te10 Cut-off Reflection Phase in Gentle Rectangular Downtapers
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 12, 79-85, 2009
Abstract
The phase of the reflection coefficient of a TE10 rectangular waveguide mode at the cut-off point in a gentle downtaper is investigated through both experiment and computer simulation. The result shows a very good agreement with the theoretical prediction based on the work by Katsenelenbaum et al., that is, a +90° phase shift occurs at the cut-off point for TE modes if the cut-off point is not too close to the end of the downtaper. An application for the determination of the resonant frequencies for the spurious trapped TE30 mode in an uptaper-downtaper oversized resonant structure is presented.
Citation
Henry Soekmadji, Shaolin Liao, and Ronald Vernon, "Experiment and Simulation on Te10 Cut-off Reflection Phase in Gentle Rectangular Downtapers," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 12, 79-85, 2009.
doi:10.2528/PIERL09090707
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