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Design and Implementation of the Hi인 Power Ka-band Waveguide Diplexer with an E-plane T-junction  

Yun So-Hyeun (Satellite Communications RF Technology Team, ETRI)
Uhm Man-Seok (Satellite Communications RF Technology Team, ETRI)
Yom In-Bok (Satellite Communications RF Technology Team, ETRI)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.16, no.7, 2005 , pp. 732-739 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the design and implementation of the Ka-band(20/30 GHz) waveguide diplexer with an E-plane T-junction are described. The waveguide diplexer consists of a transmit filter and a receive filter combined to the antenna port via an E-plane T-junction. The reason why the E-plane T-junction structure was selected is to reduce PIM(Passive Intermodulation) level as the split-plane is located in the low electrical current zone. The optimization was performed using the equivalent circuit so that the computation time might reduce. The structure of the diplexer was designed to handle high power and the multipaction analysis was performed. The multipaction margin was greater than 12 dB and satisfied with ESA/ESTEC recommendation. The manufactured diplexer shows minimum return loss of 22 dB, maximum insertion loss of 0.20 dB and maximum isolation of -40 dB for both transmitted receive bands. Those mean the analysis results of the waveguide diplexer were well agreed with the electrical performance test.
Keywords
Polarizer Waveguide Diplexer; E-plane T-junction; PIM; Multipaction;
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