Abstract:
An energy harvester system includes an aircraft power cable carrying an alternating current and an energy harvester. The energy harvester includes a ferromagnetic ring encircling the aircraft power cable and configured so that the alternating current in the aircraft power cable generates magnetic flux in the ferromagnetic ring and an inductive coil wrapped around at least a portion of the ferromagnetic ring to generate a voltage from the magnetic flux in the ferromagnetic ring.
Abstract:
When a phase constant in a first mode of propagation in the forward direction is βp, and a phase constant in a second mode of propagation in the backward direction is βm, respective first and second electrical lengths of stub conductors are set so that a function of nonreciprocal phase shift amount βNR=(βp−βm)/2 with respect to an operating angular frequency comes close to a function βNRZ with respect to an operating angular frequency, when beam squint of such a phenomenon that a radiation direction of electromagnetic waves radiated from a nonreciprocal transmission line apparatus changes in accordance with frequency does not occur in the vicinity of an intersection of a dispersion curve representing a relation between the phase constant βp and the operating angular frequency and a dispersion curve representing a relation between the phase constant βm and the operating angular frequency.
Abstract:
Tunable microwave magnetic devices that provide increased performance with reduced size, weight, and cost. The disclosed microwave magnetic devices are voltage-tunable devices that include ferrite substrates. To tune the devices, the magnetic permeability of the respective ferrite substrates is varied by external, voltage-tuned, magnetic fringe fields created by one or more magnetoelectric (ME) transducers.
Abstract:
A driver for a ferrite load includes a controller, a clock generator, and a pulse generator. The driver includes a first driver element coupled to the pulse generator and configured to provide a first pulse with a first width that drives a current in a first direction through the load for setting a first magnetic flux. The driver includes a second driver element coupled to the pulse generator and configured to provide a second pulse, having a second width that is independent of the first width, that drives a current in a second, opposite direction through the load for setting a second magnetic flux. The driver includes a feedback input that is configured to receive at least one signal used by the controller to selectively cause the pulse generator to activate one of the first and second driver elements to apply a first or second pulse, respectively, to the load.
Abstract:
A non-reciprocal gyromagnetic phase shift device for microwave signals is provided. The device has a section of waveguide with at least two stacked chambers in each of which ferrite-containing slabs are arranged opposite one another on top and bottom walls of the stacked chambers along a common axis, in use a magnetic field being applied to the section of waveguide along the common axis along which are positioned the ferrite-containing slabs. The phase shift device proposed may be used in different microwave circuits. For example, it may be combined with a folded magic tee and a 3 dB hybrid coupler in order to form a 4-port differential phase shift circulator.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus enabling operation of balanced phase shifts providing uniformity that the insertion loss do not show variation with the derived angles in phase shift. The invention incorporates a resonator supporting nonreciprocal wave propagation. The resonator is divided in two equal parts showing symmetry so that the change in electronic parameters from one part of the resonator counter balances the other part, thereby causing no change to the resonance condition. Amplifiers are thus not needed by the phase-shift operation. Electronically active materials, such as ferrites, ferroelectrics, and/or varactors, are utilized, and the phase shifter device can be fabricated assuming a variety of transmission-line geometries, such as microstrips, striplines, waveguides, coax lines, parallel wires, coplanar waveguides, image lines, fin lines, and slot lines, providing versatility and convenience in applications.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for accelerating or delaying an electromagnetic signal. A rectangular waveguide phase shifter has a ferrite filled center section with a pair of magnetic bias lines placed on opposing sides of the waveguide, each bias line being adjacent to one of the two opposing sides. Each magnetic bias line creates a magnetic field in the ferrite filled center section. The resulting magnetic field in half of the center section has the same magnitude but is oppositely directed to the magnetic field in the other half of the center section. This ideally results in a zero magnetic field at the very center of the ferrite filled center section. A microwave signal propagates through the waveguide phase shifter in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic field lines. The amount of phase shift provided depends on the magnitude of the magnetic fields. These magnetic fields are controllable by adjusting the current passing through the bias lines.
Abstract:
A feed-forward microwave amplifier arrangement is disclosed havaing an error-detecting loop including a main amplifier branch and a phase-shift branch, as well as an error-canceling loop including an auxiliary amplifier branch and a phase-shift branch. A temperature compensating arrangement including a ferrite slab centrally mounted in a stepped rectangular waveguide is provided in the phase-shift branch of the error-canceling loop. The temperature compensating arrangement has a phase versus temperature characteristic similar to that of the auxiliary amplifier. An additional ferrite temperature compensating arrangement, having a phase versus temperature characteristic similar to that of the main amplifier, may be provided in the phase-shift branch of the error-detecting loop.
Abstract:
A dielectric waveguide reciprocal ferrite phase shifter is provided for usen a dielectric waveguide transmission line. The phase shifter is comprised of a length of ferrite of the same cross-sectional dimension as that of the dielectric waveguide and in fact becomes a section of the transmission line. The length of ferrite bears a thin plastic layer on its top and bottom surface and metal plates on each piece of plastic. The length of this multilayer structure then has a wire coil wrapped around in order to provide a d.c. magnetic biasing field along the length of the ferrite thereby enabling magnetization of the ferrite resulting in a reciprocal phase shift or change in electrical length within the structure.
Abstract:
The device consist of a latching, nonreciprocal ferrite phase shifter, a ching Faraday rotator, a radiating element and the required matching transformers combined into a single unit used as a phased array element. The phase shift is provided by a toroid type non-reciprocal ferrite phase shifter. The polarization rotation is provided by an axially magnetized ferrite filled waveguide. The impedance matching between the sections is achieved with ceramic transformers. This device provides full polarization control.