中国物理B ›› 2017, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 37306-037306.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/3/037306
• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇 下一篇
Broadband microwave frequency doubler based on left-handed nonlinear transmission lines
Jie Huang(黄杰), Wenwen Gu(顾雯雯), Qian Zhao(赵倩)
- 1 College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
2 School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Broadband microwave frequency doubler based on left-handed nonlinear transmission lines
Jie Huang(黄杰)1, Wenwen Gu(顾雯雯)1, Qian Zhao(赵倩)2
- 1 College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
2 School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
摘要： A bandwidth microwave second harmonic generator is successfully designed using composite right/left-handed nonlinear transmission lines (CRLH NLTLs) in a GaAs monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology. The structure parameters of CRLH NLTLs, e.g. host transmission line, rectangular spiral inductor, and nonlinear capacitor, have a great impact on the second harmonic performance enhancement in terms of second harmonic frequency, output power, and conversion efficiency. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the second harmonic frequency is determined by the anomalous dispersion of CRLH NLTLs and can be significantly improved by effectively adjusting these structure parameters. A good agreement between the measured and simulated second harmonic performances of Ka-band CRLH NLTLs frequency multipliers is successfully achieved, which further validates the design approach of frequency multipliers on CRLH NLTLs and indicates the potentials of CRLH NLTLs in terms of the generation of microwave and millimeter-wave signal source.
中图分类号: (III-V semiconductors)
- 73.61.Ey