A Wave Trapping Dispersive Delay Structure Based on Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW)

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel dispersive delay structure using substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) that traps electromagnetic waves in a feedback loop to achieve higher group delay swings with compact size.

Contribution

The paper proposes a new wave trapping dispersive delay structure based on SIW, enhancing group delay swing through feedback loops and junction improvements.

Findings

Achieves high group delay swing of 9 ns

Maintains compact size for the device

Inserts loss is approximately 7 dB

Abstract

A dispersive delay structure (DDS) is a device that creates a specified group delay function over frequency bandwidth. In this paper, the idea of trapping the electromagnetic waves in a feedback loop is proposed to achieve higher group delay swing. The proposed structure includes two transmission lines and two junctions that act as power divider/combiner. The transmission lines can be either dispersive or non-dispersive. The group delay in the proposed configuration is proportional to the injected power into the feedback loop. So, an increase in the group delay swing can be done by improving the junctions or by adding more feedback loops to the structure. Based on this configuration, a novel DDS, using the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) transmission line, is introduced. According to the experimental results, the proposed device with a relatively compact size creates high group delay swings (9 ns), and its insertion loss is about 7 dB.