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This paper presents a full–wave algorithm for the design and the optimization of quasi–optical frequency multipliers and discusses its implementation in a specialized computer code, able to simulate as a whole the non–linear device, the planar antenna and the embedding layered structure. The electromagnetic analysis of the multiplier is performed under the simplifying approximation of an infinite array excited by a uniform plane wave incident from the broadside direction. The array parameters are deduced from a full–wave analysis, based on the Method of the Moments, while the solution of the non–linear circuit is found by the Harmonic Balance Method.
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Arcioni, P., Bozzi, M., Conciauro, G. et al. Design and Optimization of Quasi–Optical Frequency Multipliers. International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 20, 913–928 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021778318847
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