ALPS - A new past frequency-sweep procedure for microwave devices

The discretization of Maxwell equations results in a polynomial matrix equa tion in frequency. In this paper,,ve present a robust and efficient algorit hm for solving the polynomial matrix equation. To solve this equation for a broad bandwidth, one previously performs a discrete frequency sweep where the resulting matrix needs to be inverted at numerous frequencies,while cur rent procedure requires only one matrix inversion. Speed improvements compa red to the discrete sweep range from 10 to 100 times, depending on number o f resonance peaks encountered.