Some properties of the circular waveguide with azimuthally magnetized ferrite

摘要

A comprehensive analysis of normal rotationally symmetric TE modes in a circular waveguide, filled with ferrite, magnetized azimuthally to remanence by a coaxial switching conductor of finite radius, is presented. The characteristic equation of the structure, derived in terms of Kummer and Tricomi confluent hypergeometric functions of complex parameter and variable, is solved numerically, using specially compiled tables of wave functions. Families of theoretically calculated nonreciprocal phase characteristics of the gyrotropic waveguide are shown in normalized form for the two latched states of remanent magnetization, a variety of ferrite parameters, and different values of switching conductor to waveguide radius ratio. The influence of structure geometry and parameters of anisotropic ferrite on normalized differential phase shift and cutoff frequency spectrum of the TE01mode is discussed.