A 170 GHz 45° hybrid for submillimeter wave sideband separating subharmonic mixers

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 680-682

  Sobis, Peter J ^a   Stake, Jan ^a   Emrich, Anders ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b CLYDE SPACE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave directional couplers; Millimeter wave phase shifters; Power dividers; Rectangular waveguide filters; Terahertz waveguide couplers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXERS (MACHINERY); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SEPARATION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

MILLIMETER WAVE DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; MILLIMETER WAVE PHASE SHIFTERS; POWER DIVIDERS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; TERAHERTZ WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 54049088241     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2003463     Document Type: Article

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