Automatic electromagnetic solvers based on mode-matching, transverse resonance, and S-matrix techniques

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is to present a new generalized mode-matching (GMM) approach to both mode bases and S-matrices calculation of complicated waveguide circuits. Development of the GMM procedures makes it possible to realize totally automatic algorithms for a wide set of configurations avoiding a specialized analytical treatment of each new boundary-value problem. Moreover, the background for linking up the interface tools of a circuit geometry specification and editing is provided by the GMM approach together with the special algorithms for recognizing the object configurations and for data preparation. The class of objects that can be calculated by the suggested approach includes any WG circuits with metal boundaries specified in the Cartesian coordinate system or with the smooth boundaries that may be replaced by a staircase surface. The corresponding electromagnetic solvers are closer to the software based on the mesh methods in generality, in the same time saving the high accuracy and computation speed typical for highly specialized mode-matching procedures.