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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 1, 021 (2006)

Rapid Communications

Beaming of Millimeter Waves from Plasma Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Hitoshi HOJO , Naoto UCHIDA , Kunihiko HATTORI 1) and Atsushi MASE2)
Plasma Research Center, University of Tsukuba
1)
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
2)
Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University
(Received 18 January 2006 / Accepted 24 February 2006 / Published 19 April 2006)

Abstract

The beaming of millimeter waves from two-dimensional plasma photonic crystal waveguides is studied numerically based on a finite difference time domain simulation. It is shown that the beaming of millimeter waves is due to coupling with surface lattice modulation in plasma photonic crystals having a glass-rod lattice in the background discharged plasma, while millimeter-wave beaming is due to the horn antenna of plasma rods in plasma photonic crystals having a plasma-rod lattice in a vacuum.

Keywords

plasma photonic crystal, millimeter wave, beaming, photonic crystal waveguide, horn antenna

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.1.021

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Hitoshi HOJO , Naoto UCHIDA , Kunihiko HATTORI and Atsushi MASE, Plasma Fusion Res. 1, 021 (2006).