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  • High-Temperature Superconductive Photomixer Patch Antenna: Theory and Design

    Daryoosh SAEEDKIA  A. Hamed MAJEDI  S. SAFAVI-NAEINI  Raafat R. MANSOUR  

     
    PAPER-MWP Devices

      Vol:
    E86-C No:7
      Page(s):
    1318-1327

    This paper presents a novel mm-wave and THz device concept, with a detailed physical modeling and quantitative performance evaluation, called as CW HTS (high temperature superconductive) photomixer/antenna. Optical heterodyne photomixing in the DC-biased HTS strip has been employed to create mm-wave and THz signal, and the size of strip on the grounded dielectric substrate is designed to have an efficient broadside radiation. Incorporating the HTS microstrip configuration as both photomixing media and radiation element at the same time not only increases the CW photocurrent but also the radiation power, while it reduces the radiation loss associated with the patch antenna. Two possible configurations called as longitudinal and transversal will be introduced and their photomixing efficiency and output radiation power will be compared. The detailed analysis along with the optimum design of the geometrical parameters of the microstrip structure shows that the transversal scheme exhibits higher radiation power. The typical nW output power can be obtained by mW laser pump power for frequencies up to the gap frequency of the HTS material. The output power of the proposed device is theoretically higher than the experimentally available data from a Low-Temperature-Grown (LTG) GaAs photomixer integrated with dipole or bow-tie antenna reported in the literature.