A COMPACT Ka-BAND BROADBAND WAVEGUIDE-BASED TRAVELING-WAVE SPATIAL POWER COMBINER WITH LOW LOSS SYMMETRIC COUPLING STRUCTURE

被引:13
作者
Kang, Zhiyong [1 ]
Chu, Qingxin [1 ]
Wu, Qiongsen [1 ]
机构
[1] South China Univ Technol, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
来源
PROGRESS IN ELECTROMAGNETICS RESEARCH LETTERS | 2013年 / 36卷
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
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D O I
10.2528/PIERL12111311
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A compact Ka-band broadband waveguide-based traveling wave spatial power combiner is presented. The low loss micro-strip probes are symmetrically inserted into both broadwalls of waveguide, quadrupling the coupling ways but the insertion loss increases little. The measured 16 dB return-loss bandwidth of the eight-way back-toback structure is from 30 GHz to 39.4 GHz (more than 25%) and the insertion loss is less than 1 dB, which predicts the power-combining efficiency is higher than 90%.
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页码:181 / 190
页数:10
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