{"title":"Continuous Fabrication of Microstructured Waveguides for THz Communications Using Infinite 3D Printing","authors":"Guofu Xu, K. Nallappan, Yang Cao, M. Skorobogatiy","doi":"10.1109/SUM48717.2021.9505784","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A micro-structured suspended-core waveguide is designed for information transmission at 128 GHz carrier frequency. It is 3D printed using a 45° inclined extruder that enables continuous, length-unlimited fabrication of terahertz waveguides. The experimental characterization demonstrated the promising prospect of such novel technique for waveguide-assisted applications.","PeriodicalId":359978,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SUM48717.2021.9505784","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A micro-structured suspended-core waveguide is designed for information transmission at 128 GHz carrier frequency. It is 3D printed using a 45° inclined extruder that enables continuous, length-unlimited fabrication of terahertz waveguides. The experimental characterization demonstrated the promising prospect of such novel technique for waveguide-assisted applications.