The invention discloses a mode
exciter of a
circular waveguide TM11 mode, and belongs to the technical field of high-power
millimeter wave testing. The mode
exciter comprises a power dividing structure, a
coupling excitation structure and an output structure. After passing through the power dividing structure, a TE10 mode is divided into two groups of TE10
modes which are equal in amplitude and have a
phase difference of 180 degrees and then reaches a
coupling end. At the
coupling end, the two groups of rectangular
waveguide TE10
modes are efficiently coupled into
ridge gap waveguides by two coupling probes of the coupling excitation structure respectively and converted into two groups of
ridge gap
waveguide quasi-TEM
modes which are equal in amplitude and have a
phase difference of 180 degrees, the two groups of
ridge gap
waveguide quasi-TEM modes are respectively transmitted to two excitation probes by the ridge gap waveguides, and a group of TEM
waves with equal amplitude and opposite phases is excited at an excitation end of the output structure through the excitation probes. The group of TEM
waves are subjected to vector synthesis to form a
circular waveguide TM11 mode, and the
circular waveguide TM11 mode is output to a circular waveguide transmission link through an output port. The mode
exciter can generate a circular waveguide TM11 mode in a
broadband, the mode purityis high, the
transmission loss is small, the structure is compact, and
system integration is facilitated.