Waveguide Port Approach in EM Simulation of Microwave Antennas

Abstract

This chapter generalizes a recently proposed MoM-based approach to waveguide port excitation (WPE) problems on arbitrary conducting and composite geometries. This approach combines the canonical aperture coupling approach with the EFIE-PMCHWT formulation for composite structures. Each WPE problem in this approach is divided into equivalent sub-problems for internal and external regions, which are solved using the MoM. Internal WPE problems are solved using waveguide modal expansion in the port plane, while external problems are solved using the equivalence principle to reduce these problems to the systems of algebraic equations for unknown electric and magnetic currents. The developed approach is validated on radiation and coupling problems for coaxial ports by comparing simulated results with those obtained by other approaches and measurements. An excellent agreement between the simulated and measured results is demonstrated. Finally, this approach is applied to practical EMC problems for microwave antennas fed by coaxial ports.