US3617946A - Junction circulator wherein a conductive core extends within gyromagnetic material - Google Patents

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US3617946A
US3617946A US7872A US3617946DA US3617946A US 3617946 A US3617946 A US 3617946A US 7872 A US7872 A US 7872A US 3617946D A US3617946D A US 3617946DA US 3617946 A US3617946 A US 3617946A
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  • ABSTRACT A junction circulator in which the usual magnetically biased ferrite post is modified by being separated from one conductive boundary by a dielectric gap and by having a conductive core extending axially therein from the other boundary. These modifications induce wave fields which simulate those of the turnstile circulator and produce a comparable broadband circulation.
  • This invention relates to symmetrical coupling devices for electromagnetic wave energy and, more particularly, to very broadband waveguide Y-junction circulators.
  • the basic Y-junction circulator comprises a conductively bounded junction of three waveguides having a magnetically biased gyromagnetic body extending along the axis of symmetry of the junction.
  • This basic structure principally having to do with the size and shape of the gyromagnetic body and with means for matching its impedance to the remainder of the structure, have been proposed to improve one or another of the operating characteristics of the circulator.
  • the usual waveguide junction is supplemented by a first shorted circular waveguide stub rising out of one side of the junction in which the axially biased gyromagnetic body is located and a second shorted coaxial stub extending from the opposite side of the junction.
  • the structure derives its broadband width from its ability to couple the counterrotating modes in the circular guide stub and in the in-phase mode into the coaxial guide stub. These modes can thus be tuned independently in a way which results in their reflection coefficients being displaced by 120 over a broadband.
  • the superior electrical performance of a double-tuned turnstile circulator is duplicated with a structure that is little more mechanically complicated than a typical Y-junction circulator.
  • the usual magnetically biased, gyromagnetic, cylindrically shaped post extending along the axis of symmetry of the junction is foreshortened to create a dielectric discontinuity between one conductive boundary of the junction and one end of the post.
  • a conductive core is extended from one conductive boundary of the junction part of the way along the axis of the post.
  • the dielectric gap causes counterrotating electric fields to be induced in the gyromagnetic body normal to the magnetic bias so that the gyromagnetic body acts as did the circular guide stub of the turnstile.
  • the conductive core tunes a mode functionally corresponding to the mode supported in the coaxial stub of the turnstile.
  • FIG. 1 is a cutaway perspective view of a typical prior art turnstile circulator
  • FIG. 2 is a cutaway perspective view of a junction circulator in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows typical reflection coefl'rcient characteristics useful in understanding the operation of the invention.
  • FIG. A shows in cross section an alternative arrangement of components within the junction of FIG. 2.
  • the prior art doubletuned circulator according to ll'iaugen and Schaug-Pettersen is shown since copies of its published description are not easily available for the purpose of comparison with the present invention. It comprises three rectangular waveguides 10, Ill and 12 intersecting in a Y at angles in an Iii-plane junction (the plane of the guide broad dimension) to form a conductively bounded common region from which the waveguide branches symmetrically extend. Extending coaxially with the axis of symmetry of the Y from the upper boundary of the common region is a section of circular waveguide I3 that is coupled at its lower end by a circular aperture to the junction and that is closed at its upper end by a shorting boundary 14.
  • Cylinder I5 is longitudinally biased along the axis of symmetry by being permanently magnetically polarized or polarized by the use of external magnets as schematically represented by the vector I-I
  • the lower end of coaxial 116-117 is shorted by conducting member 18.
  • the counterrotating modes propagate up the circular loaded guide 13 with an electric field and a transverse magnetic field nonnal to the biasing field H and are reflected back toward the junction by short 1A.
  • the net phase shifts for these modes with the gyromagnetic material unmagnetized are identical and are determined by the length of circular guide 13.
  • Magnetizing cylinder 15 increases and decreases the path lengths of the counterrotating modes, respectively, and by adjusting H and the length of guide 13 and cylinder 15, these modes can be separated by 120 from each other as required for circulator action. This corresponds to Faraday rotation by cylinder 15 of 60.
  • the in-phase mode cannot propagate into circular guide 13 but is coupled into coaxial section 16-17 where it is reflected back toward the junction by short 18. If the electrical lengths to short 18 and to short 14 are comparable, both paths will have the same frequency dependence. Therefore, even as frequency changes over a very broad band, the modes will track each other with the required 120-phase difference limited only by the constancy of the Faraday rotation of cylinder 15 with frequency until that frequency is reached at which higher order modes appear in guide 13.
  • gyromagnetic element 25 takes the form of an axially biased cylinder located within the common region of the junction on the axis of symmetry. Cylinder 25 has a small hole 24 drilled along its axis. The top end of cylinder 25 is contiguous to the top conductive boundary 23 of the common region and a gap 27 filled either by air, or by a suitable nonmagnetic dielectric material having dielectric constant close to that of air or at least substantially different from that of cylinder 25 forms a space between the lower end of cylinder 25 and the lower conductive boundary of the junction.
  • a conductive platform 26 raises the lower conductive boundary, shortens gap 27 and acts as an impedance-matching transformer.
  • a thin conductive pin 28 is located axially within hole 24 and is conductively connected to the top conductive boundary.
  • gap 27 The significance of gap 27 can be understood when it is recalled that in an ordinary l-I-plane resonant junction, the electric fields are everywhere parallel to the axis of symmetry.
  • the region formed by gap 27, however, has a dielectric constant and permeability product that is different from that of the region occupied by the gyromagnetic material of cylinder 25 so that the phase constants of the two regions differ. This creates an electric field in the plane of the interface between the two regions.
  • the counterrotating excitations launch waves as dielectrically supported modes in cylinder 25, travelling up cylinder 25 to be reflected at boundary 23 and to couple back into the junction at gap 27.
  • the similarities between these waves and those supported in guide 13 of FIG. 1 are quite apparent.
  • the phase of the counterrotating modes are determined by the length of cylinder 25 and the degree of its magnetic polarization.
  • the in-phase mode sees cylinder 25 only as a dielectric resonator since this mode has no circularly polarized magnetic fields and does not excite any mode propagating along the axis of cylinder 25 and thus there is no gyromagnetic interaction with its material.
  • This mode has, however, an electric field on the axis of symmetry such that the resonant frequency depends upon the penetration of pin 28.
  • the counterrotating modes have only transverse electric fields at the axis of symmetry, and, therefore, are not affected by pin 28. The effect of pin 28 together with cylinder 25, therefore, simulates the effect ofcoaxial 16-17 of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 shows typical reflection coefficients in phase degrees of the three modes described above as they vary with frequency.
  • the counterrotating modes as represented by curves 31 and 32 are phase separated by by controlling the Faraday rotation parameters of cylinder 15 including its length, composition and magnetization.
  • Pin 28 is then employed to position the in-phase mode curve as represented by curve 33 (considered as having a resonant delay) so that its most linear portion falls within the band of intended operation in a given junction with a phase 120 away from the phase of the nearest rotating mode of curve 31.
  • increasing the length of pin 28 causes the in-phase mode coefiicient to shift from the position of dotted curve 34 in the direction of the required curve 33. Circulation is then possible over the full range in which the curves generally parallel each other as indicated.
  • the outer diameter of cylinder 25 when formed of ferrite should be approximately 1 wavelength in the ferrite medium at the lowest operating frequency.
  • the ratio of the diameter of hole 24 to outer diameter of cylinder 25 should preferably be no greater than one-sixth.
  • the pin 27 should have the minimum practical diameter with a penetration of the order of one-third the waveguide height. In practice it is convenient to determine the required pin length by means of a pin with penetration adjustable to approximately one-half the guide height.
  • the gap 27 is typically of the order of one-fifth to one-fourth the guide height.
  • the ferrite should be selected to avoid low field losses in accordance with standard practice for low field devices.
  • pin 28 may extend from either conductive boundary in the structure of FIG. 2 or a pair of pins may be employed.
  • the structure as illustrated is obviously preferred from a fabrication standpoint.
  • it may be desirable to couple to the counterrotating modes by introducing two dielectric discontinuities as shown in FIG. 4.
  • counterrotating modes are generated at both of the two interfaces formed by a single gap 41 of nonmagnetic dielectric material centrally interposed between two gyromagnetic cylinders 42 and 43, each having one end contiguous to one conductive boundary of the junction.
  • Duplicate modes propagate in opposite directions in cylinders 42 and 43 and are reflected respectively by the upper and lower junction boundaries to couple back into the junction at the gap.
  • Either one or both conductive pins 44 and 45 tune the in-phase mode as described.
  • the present invention provides an improvement upon circulators of the turnstile type. While particularly illustrated by way of the three-branch or Y-junction form, it should be noted that four-branch turnstile junction has been described by P. J. Allen in 11.8. Pat. No. 2,867,772, granted June 6, 1959, and in the IRE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Oct. 1956 on page 223. The principles of the invention are equally applicable to improving this fourbranch form as will be obvious to one skilled in the art of the foregoing teachings.
  • a broadband circuiator for electromagnetic wave energy comprising a conductively bounded structure having a plurality of branches symmetrically extending away from a conductively bounded common region having a pair of opposite conductive boundaries and adapted to support said wave energy with an electric field perpendicular to said boundaries and a magnetic field lying substantially in loops in planes parallel to said boundaries, a body of magnetically polarized gyromagnetic material symmetrically disposed with respect to said common region, said body being contiguous to one conductive boundary of said common region and being spaced from the opposite conductive boundary to leave a dielectric gap therebetween, and a conductive core extending symmetrically within said body from said one boundary.
  • a broadband circulator for electromagnetic wave energy comprising a conductively bounded structure having a plurality of branches symmetrically extending away from a conductively bounded common region having a pair of opposite conductive boundaries and adapted to support said wave energy with an electric field perpendicular to said boundaries and a magnetic field lying substantially in loops in planes parallel to said boundaries, a body of magnetically polarized gyromagnetic material having a longitudinal axis symmetrically disposed in said common region, means for creating a conductive and reflecting discontinuity at one end of said body, means for creating a dielectric discontinuity at the other end of said body, and means for tuning the electric field that lies along the axis of said body.
  • said means for tuning comprises a thin conductive pin extending along said axis from one conductive boundary to a point spaced from the other conductive boundary.
  • the circulator of claim 5 including a raised conductive platform interposed between and “filling a part only of the space between said other end and said other boundary.

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