Authors: Carl Toft1, Rob Maaskant1and Johan Wettergren2 1 Chalmers University of Technology, 2 RUAG Space AB
Source: FERMAT,Volume 14,Article,Mar-Apr,2016
Abstract: A method for the fast analysis of a large number of wave guides coupled through rectangular apertures of arbitrary size and placement is presented. To enable the analysis of weakly excited slots, an accurate method-of-moments approach employing basis functions corresponding to a modal expansion of the electric field in the slot cavities is utilized, which includes both polarizations of the electric field at the slot apertures, as well as the transverse variation of the field across the slot. The characteristic basis function method (CBFM) reduces the memory requirements significantly and speeds up the computation, and is used to analyze a junction with two branch wave guides with very weakly excited slots, showing excellent agreement with the commercial FEKO.
Index Terms: Moment method, Microwave propagation, Waveguide slots, Aperture admittance, CBFM
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Fast Solution of Multiple Slot-Coupled Waveguide Junctions Using the CBFM