A full-wave modal analysis of arbitrarily shaped waveguide discontinuities using the finite plane-wave series expansion

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 232-237

  MacPhie, Robert H ^a,b   Wu, Ke Li ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Com Dev ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Full wave modal analysis; Inhomgeneous waveguide junctions

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

FINITE-PLANE WAVE SERIES EXPANSION; FULL-WAVE MODAL ANALYSIS; INHOMOGENEOUS WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033078077     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.744299     Document Type: Article

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