Les accélérateurs de particules hyperfréquences sont au cœur de projets d’envergure aux visées scientifiques (comme l’European Spallation Source) ou énergétiques (comme le réacteur hybride MYRRHA). Pour ces applications, les cavités résonnantes composant ces accélérateurs doivent atteindre des champs accélérateurs très importants. Elles ont alors besoin d’une grande puissance RF. Le coupleur de puissance doit permettre d’injecter cette puissance dans la cavité tout en garantissant une grande fiabilité. L’étude d’un coupleur à 704,4MHz a été réalisée. Les comportements radiofréquences, thermiques et mécaniques ont été modélisés pour une puissance de 50kW en réflexion toutes phases. Les performances simulées permettent d’envisager son utilisation comme coupleur pour les cavités elliptiques de l’ADS MYRRHA. L’industrialisation d’un tel coupleur a également été étudiée. Cette étude a donné lieu à la fabrication de deux prototypes. L’étude d’un coupleur à 352MHz a également été réalisée afin de répondre aux exigences de la cavité SPOKE ESS. Un nouveau processus d’assemblage, impliquant une méthode de précontrainte de la céramique, sera exposé. Ce processus diminue le nombre d’étapes de fabrication et renforce mécaniquement la fenêtre du coupleur. Cette thèse a également permis la validation de l’extension aux ondes progressives d’un logiciel de simulation 3D du multipactor : Musicc3D. Les simulations et les mesures ont été favorablement comparées pour les coupleurs SPIRAL2 et XFEL. / Nowadays, the number of projects aiming at building high intensity proton linear accelerators is increasing thanks to a large field of applications: particles & nuclear physics, spallation sources and some applications in material sciences, biology and nuclear waste reprocessing. All these linear accelerator projects are based on superconducting technology that allows high accelerating gradients in continuous mode. The RF power coupler is one of the main components of the accelerator. It is designed to transmit the radio frequency power from the waveguide at room temperature to the cavity at 4 Kelvin with high reliability. In this thesis, a study of a 704.4MHz power coupler was carried out. The RF, thermal and mechanical behaviors of the coupler were simulated for 50kW full reflection continuous wave. This power coupler could be used as RF injector for MYRRHA elliptical cavities. The fabrication process has been established and two prototypes were build. A study of a 352MHz power coupler was also carried out to fulfill ESS Spoke cavities needs. The obtained design satisfies the specifications and lowers the maximum electric field in the power coupler window compared to existing design. Then a new fabrication process was developed using prestressed ceramic. Brazing operations have halved with this new process. It was shown that the prestressed could enhance the strengths ceramic. The last study in this thesis consisted in validating an extension to progressive waves of 3D simulation software of Multipacting, Musicc3D. The results obtained were favorably compared to the measurements for SPIRAL2 and XFEL power couplers.

In this thesis by articles, I propose and demonstrate the full design, fabrication and characterization of optical biosensors based on (Bloch) Long Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons (LRSPPs). Gold waveguides embedded in CYTOP with an etched microfluidic channel supporting LRSPPs and gold waveguides on a one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPC) supporting Bloch LRSPPs are exploited for biosensing applications. Straight gold waveguides embedded in CYTOP supporting LRSPPs as a biosensor, are initially used to measure the kinetics constants of protein-protein interactions. The kinetics constants are extracted from binding curves using the integrated rate equation. Linear and non-linear least squares analysis are employed to obtain the kinetics constants and the results are compared. The device is also used to demonstrate enhanced assay formats (sandwich and inhibition assays) and protein concentrations as low as 10 pg/ml in solution are detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of 20 using this new optical biosensor technology. CYTOP which has a refractive index close to water is the fluoropolymer of choice in current state of the art waveguide biosensors. CYTOP has a low glass transition temperature which introduces limitations in fabrication processes. A truncated 1D photonic crystal can replace a low-index polymer cladding such as CYTOP, to support Bloch LRSPPs within the bandgap of the 1DPC over a limited ranges of wavenumber and wavelength. Motivated by quality issues with end facets, we seek to use grating couplers in a broadside coupling scheme where a laser beam emerging from an optical fiber excites Bloch LRSPPs on a Au stripe on a truncated 1D photonic crystal. Adiabatic and non-adiabatic flared stripes accommodating wide gratings size-matched to an incident Gaussian beam are designed and compared to maximise the coupling efficiency to LRSPPs. The gratings are optimized, initially, through 2D modelling using the vectorial finite element method (FEM). Different 3D grating designs were then investigated via 3D modelling using the vectorial finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Given their compatibility with planar technologies, gratings and waveguides can be integrated into arrays of biosensors enabling multi-channel biosensing. A multi-channel platform can provide, e.g., additional measurements to improve the reliability in a disease detection problem. Thus, a novel optical biosensor based on Bloch LRSPPs on waveguide arrays integrated with electrochemical biosensors is presented. The structures were fabricated on truncated 1D photonic crystals comprised of 15 period stack of alternating layers of SiO2/Ta2O5. The optical biosensors consist of Au stripes supporting Bloch LRSPPs and integrate grating couplers as input/output means. The Au stripes also operate as a working electrode in conjunction with a neighboring Pt counter electrode to form an electrochemical sensor. The structures were fabricated using bilayer lift-off photolithography and the gratings were fabricated using overlaid e-beam lithography. The planar waveguides are integrated into arrays capable of multichannel biosensing. The wafer is covered with CYTOP as the upper cladding with etched microfluidic channels, and wafer-bonded to a borofloat silica wafer to seal the fluidic channels and enable side fluidic interfaces. The proposed device is capable in principle of simultaneous optical and electrochemical sensing and could be used to address disease detection problems using a multimodal strategy.

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices have been under research for over half a century due to their excellent performance characteristics in the fields of signal processing and communications. In particular, it has been show that SAW devices can operate as sensors that are both wireless and passive. For a sensor that is wireless, it is important to develop a coding scheme that allows for the identification of an individual sensor in a multiple sensor environment. For SAW sensors, orthogonal frequency coding (OFC) has been demonstrated as a method to provide a large number of unique identification codes. This system relies on an array of frequency selective reflectors (chips) in the SAW propagation path. The reflectors are ordered such that no two SAW sensors contain an array of reflection gratings in the same frequency order. One way to increase the number of usable codes in an OFC sensor is to increase the number of OFC chips on the sensor. With this technique it is necessary to increase the delay between the transducer and the OFC chips while keeping the length of the device small. Multiple surface wave propagation tracks can be utilized to slightly increase the width of the die instead of the length. This research aims to investigate methods to extend delay time in a coded SAW device by utilizing two propagation tracks. It will be shown that the reflective multistrip coupler (RMSC) can accomplish this goal with low loss. The design, fabrication, and characterization of the RMSC will be given with applications shown in an OFC SAW device.

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One of the major purposes of this project was to demonstrate optical components which will be used in fibre optic distribution systems. These include the fibre itself, couplers, connectors, splices, sources and detectors. All components used are state-of-the-art, the star coupler and fusion splice technique being developed by the author during the completion of the project. The star coupler has proved to have one of the lowest insertion losses of any such component to date. Although the telephone system demonstrated has only 3 stations, very similar or identical components would be used in an expanded network. / Thesis / Master of Engineering (MEngr)

Данная работа посвящена миниатюризации квадратурных и кольцевых мостовых устройств. Описана процедура проектирования миниатюрных конструкций, основанная на замене отрезка микрополосковой линии передачи на фильтр нижних частот, обладающий таким же фазовым сдвигом, что и заменяемый отрезок. Проведено моделирование предлагаемых конструкций и получены их частотные характеристики. Изготовлены опытные образцы, и измерены их характеристики, которые подтверждают работоспособность устройства. / This work is dedicated to the miniaturization of the quadrature ring and bridge devices. The procedure of designing miniature structures based on replacement of a segment of microstrip transmission line on a low-pass filter, which has the same phase shift that model and cut. The simulation of the proposed designs and obtained their frequency characteristics. Built prototypes of, and measured their characteristics, which confirm the efficiency of the device.

In this dissertation, some multi-function and flexible RF/microwave devices have been studied to solve the issues in the modern microwave system designs. First, a power divider with two functions is proposed. The first function is a zero-phase delay power divider using zero-phase impedance transformer. The second function is a power divider with impedance transforming property. To achieve the first function, the two arms are treated as zero-phase impedance transformers. When the phase requirement is relaxed, the second function is obtained. Shunt transmission line stubs are employed to connect the isolation resistor, which provides great flexibility in the design. Then, a balun with transparent termination impedance and flexible open arms is designed. The design parameters of the balun are independent to the port impedance. This property allows the balun to work with different system impedances. Furthermore, the two output ports of the balun do not need to be connected together, which enables the device to have a very flexible structure. Finally, the continuous research of a tunable/reconfigurable coupler with equal output impedance is presented. In addition to the tunable/reconfigurable responses, unequal output impedance property is added to the microstrip line coupler. To shrink the size at the low frequency and make it easy for fabrication at higher frequency, the coupler is redesigned using lumped components. To validate the design theories, simulations are carried out. Moreover, prototypes of the power divider and the balun are fabricated and characterized. The simulation and measurement results match well with the theoretical calculation.

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The performance of fused fiber couplers is wavelength dependent. Wavelength spectral compensation is a technique to decrease the effect of the wavelength dependence, which is an essential task for many applications in fiber optic communication systems. Fiber devices such as wavelength-flattened couplers (WFCs) can be fabricated using wavelength spectral compensation methods. In this dissertation, wavelength spectral compensation techniques in fused biconical taper (FBT) couplers including both multimode and single-mode fiber couplers are studied in detail. In multimode fiber coupler operation, a novel theoretical model based on frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) has been developed to effectively describe the power coupling and loss mechanism. Experimental results support the theoretical predictions. In single-mode fiber couplers, the conventional technique of fabricating WFCs is discussed. An alternative analytical model has been developed based upon coupled mode theory, which provides a relatively simple and mathematically sound explanation to the wavelength spectral compensation. Aiming to simplify WFC fabrication, a new way of constructing WFCs is proposed and demonstrated by connecting regular single-mode fiber couplers, some of which serve as wavelength spectral compensators. WFCs of various structures including 2x2, 1x3, 1x2ᴺ, and 4x4 have been developed, and the experimental data agree with theoretical predictions of performance. Potential applications and future research directions in wavelength spectral compensation are also presented. / Ph. D.