A Broadband High-Power Five-Way Power Divider/Combiner. Issue 5 (3rd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saheli, Ramin; Fallahzadeh, Saeed; Azadkhah, Mohamad Reza; Cheldavi, Ahmad
• Is Part Of: Electromagnetics. Volume 36:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 340
• Page End: 351
• Publication Date: 2016-07-03
• Subjects: Non-uniform coupler -- power divider/combiner -- strip line; Electromagnetism -- Periodicals; 537
• DOI: 10.1080/02726343.2016.1158616
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0272-6343

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A high-power five-way power divider/combiner utilizing strip-line architecture in the X-band is proposed. In this work, broadband non-uniform strip-line couplers are connected in a tree structure. A power-handling capability of 100 watts is verified by full-wave electromagnetic simulation. The simulation results indicate that the power divider/combiner exhibits a good amplitude, phase balance characteristics, and isolation between output ports, as well as a return loss at input and output ports better than 12 dB, while insertion loss is about 1.1 dB. A prototype of the power divider/combiner is fabricated and also measured. The measured results show very good agreement with those obtained by simulation.