No impedance matching??

Now if we could just do the same with air molecules then Maxwell's Demon may come to 'life'...

John :-#)#

Microwave photons? Who in his right mind talks about photons in the context of microwaves?

Jeroen Belleman

On a sunny day (Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:00:25 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman snipped-for-privacy@nospam.please wrote in <sk9uo9$bl9$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>:

Apart from photons just being a mathematical construct it does go for all EM radiation. I tried reading the paper, not quite sure about what he does, circulator?

Lots of little ones in a grid, apparently.

Jeroen Belleman

On a sunny day (Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:32:23 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman snipped-for-privacy@nospam.please wrote in <skbaq7$1pl1$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org>:

Reading up on 'circulator'

Isolator When one port of a three-port circulator is terminated in a matched load, it can be used as an isolator, since a signal can travel in only one direction between the remaining ports.[11] An isolator is used to shield equipment on its input side from the effects of conditions on its output side; for example, to prevent a microwave source being detuned by a mismatched load. <end quote> So using the circulator as 'isolater' could work. And in the link

Circulators are weird things. They are "non-reciprocal". They rely on some non-linear behaviour of ferrites, so that waves moving in opposite directions propagate with different velocities. There used to be some very big ones stored in a hall nearby. They used to sit between high-power RF generators and accelerating cavities in the LEP machine. I'll see if I can make some pictures.

Jeroen Belleman

In the first place, photons do not bounce. Then again photons do not exist.