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Abstract

Spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) transmission lines (TLs) provide a possible way to confining transmitted signals in deep subwavelength scale. SSPP TLs can suppress the mutual coupling between adjacent channels and improve the signal integrity, providing a promising alternative to conventional transmission lines. However, SSPP structures generally possess strong chromatic dispersion (i.e. signals at different frequencies propagate with different velocities), resulting in significant pulse distortion. Such drawback greatly hampers the practical application of SSPP TLs, especially in the long range transmission. To tackle this bottleneck problem, we propose a dispersion-compensation mechanism, where a section of judiciously designed TL with an opposite-dispersion characteristic is added to the SSPP circuit to achieve minimized total dispersion of the link within a broad frequency range. The experimental results indicate an impressive improvement of 72.46% for the SSPP transmission line in the stability of the circuit group delay after applying the dispersion compensation approach. This hybrid transmission line has high transmission efficiency without inducing group delay dispersion of the signals. Our design scheme can be easily extended to other frequency band, offering a possible solution to high-performance signal transmission in future integrated circuits.

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