High Power Combiner/Divider with Coupled Lines for Broadband Applications

Abstract

A broadband Gysel divider has been demonstrated. The new concept uses a coupled line segment in the design to improve isolation and matching. Significant improvement in operation bandwidth are realized compared to the conventional approach, while maintaining low-loss, ease of design, and flexibility. The coupled-Gysel divider is demonstrated with a 2.5 8GHz, 105% fractional bandwidth, and 0.1 dB loss. Another divider operates from 3.4 10.2 GHz, with 100%fractional bandwidth and 0.2 dB of insertion loss. The structure works well reciprocally as a combiner. A novel isolation structure will also be presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2017
Accession Number
AD1041843

Entities

People

  • Ali Darwish
  • Edward Viveiros
  • H. A. Hung
  • Kenneth Mcknight
  • Mona Zaghloul

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Broadband
  • Circuits
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Equivalent Circuits
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Dividers
  • Impedance
  • Insertion Loss
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Losses
  • Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Phased Arrays
  • Power Dividers
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Microwave Engineering.