Transition between a microstrip line and a rectangular waveguide
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsChristelle Le Bihan, Philipe Poire
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of resolving collisions between at an arrangement with a flat board comprising microwave integrated modules and at least one microstrip lines for guiding a signal on said flat board and a waveguide for guiding the signal out of the flat board. According to the present invention the flat board is perforated at the intersection between the flat board and the waveguide, a stand-alone piece of comprising a microstrip line termination and being adjusted over the perforation, the microstrip line termination coinciding with the extremity of one microstrip line on the flat board.
Claims8
1/ Arrangement comprising:
- a flat board comprising microwave integrated modules and at least one microstrip line for guiding a signal on said flat board) and
- a waveguide for guiding said signal out of said flat board, wherein said flat board is perforated at the intersection between said flat board and said waveguide, a stand-alone piece of dielectric comprising a microstrip line termination and being adjusted over said perforation of said flat board, said microstrip line termination coinciding with the extremity of said microstrip line on said flat board.
2/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said stand alone piece of dielectric comprises metallized surfaces in contact with said flat board and coinciding with the waveguide extremity in contact with said flat board, said metallized surfaces acting as closed extremity of said waveguide.
3/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said stand-alone piece is made out of a dielectric substantially transparent to microwaves.
4/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said stand alone piece of dielectric has the shape of two assembled parallelepipeds, a first one having substantially the shape of said perforation, a second being used to fix said stand alone piece of dielectric on said flat board.
5/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said flat board comprises surface mount technology components.
6/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said flat board is a multilayer flat board comprising at least two layer of surface mounted components.
7/ Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein it is part of a microwave radio transceiver, said waveguide propagating a microwave between said antenna and said flat board supporting the input/output stage of said transceiver.
8/ Microwave radio transceiver comprising an arrangement according to claim 1.