Design of Conical Transmission Line Power Combiners Using Tapered Line Matching Sections
| Autor: | Dirk I. L. de Villiers, P.W. van der Walt, Petrie Meyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Radiation business.industry Acoustics Bandwidth (signal processing) Impedance matching Conical surface Condensed Matter Physics Transverse mode Electric power transmission Transmission line Electronic engineering Physics::Accelerator Physics Power dividers and directional couplers Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Electrical impedance |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 56:1478-1484 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9670 0018-9480 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tmtt.2008.923879 |
| Popis: | An axially symmetric power combiner, which utilizes a tapered conical impedance matching network to transform ten 50-Omega inputs to a central coaxial line over the X-band, is presented. The use of a conical line allows standard transverse electromagnetic design theory to be used, including tapered impedance matching networks. This, in turn, alleviates the problem of very low impedance levels at the common port of conical line combiners, which normally requires very high-precision manufacturing and assembly. The tapered conical line is joined to a tapered coaxial line for a completely smooth transmission line structure. Very few full-wave analyses are needed in the design process since circuit models are optimized to achieve a wide operating bandwidth. A ten-way prototype was developed at X-band with a 47% bandwidth, very low losses, and excellent agreement between simulated and measured results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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