The Edge-Guided-Wave Circulator (Short Papers)

A complete study is presented on "edge-guided-wave" circulators (EGC). The fundamental physical principles which underlie EGC's operation are established and exploited to construct a broad-band circulator in the 8-12-GHz band. The performance data are compared to those of a "continuous tracking" circulator (CTC) and a traditional Y-junction circulator.