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http://dx.doi.org/10.5394/KINPR.2002.26.3.289

A Study on the Fabrication of the 4 Port In-Phase High Power Combiner  

Lee, Young-Sub (Division of Radio and Information Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Jeon, Joong-Sung (Research Institute of Industry Technology, Korea Maritime University)
Lee, Seok-Jeong (Research Institute of Industry Technology, Korea Maritime University)
Ye, Byeong-Duck (Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Korea Maritime University)
Kim, Dong-Il (Division of Radio and Information Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Hong, Tchang-Hee (Division of Radio and Information Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University)
Abstract
The broadband high power 3-way combiner was designed and fabricated for the digital TV repeater. To achieve increase of the bandwidth and the high power capability, Wilkinson type power divider was adopted in our research. First of all, Wilkinson type power divider of equal-split and unequal-split were combined, and the characteristics of the four port in-phase power combiner was simulated for each thickness of dielectric substrates. As the results of simulation, the power combiner fabricated by using dielectric substrate of 120 mil-thickness has the characteristics as follows: insertion loss of less than -651 dB, reflection coefficient of less than -13 dB, isolation among the output ports of less than -15 dB, and pose difference among the output ports of smiler than 13$^{\circ}$. Therefore, this power combiner was possible to improve the limit of microstrip line width due to high impedance, the problem of power loss due to interaction between strip lines in a high power combiner and narrow bandwidth simultaneously. Furthermore, making broadband and high power could be achieved since the fabricated 3-way combiner has good characteristics of insertion loss, the reflection coefficient, separation between ports, and phase difference.
Keywords
Combiner; Digital TV; Wilkinson; divider;
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