Recombinant waveguide power combiner / divider

摘要

In an example embodiment, an in-phase recombinant waveguide combiner/divider device can comprise: a single waveguide input; N waveguide outputs, wherein N is an integer greater than 2; a first waveguide dividing portion; a second waveguide dividing portion; a third waveguide dividing portion; and a waveguide combining portion. The waveguide combining portion can be configured to combine two signals that are each respectively received from the second waveguide dividing portion and third waveguide dividing portion. In general an in-phase recombinant waveguide combiner/divider can comprise more junctions than output ports of a conservative power divider network structure. In an example embodiment, for a N-way waveguide power divider, there can be at least N+1 waveguide junctions.

主权项

1. A waveguide device comprising:
a first waveguide coupled to each of a second waveguide, a third waveguide and a fourth waveguide via a plurality of waveguide junctions, wherein the plurality of waveguide junctions form:
a first signal path between the first waveguide and the second waveguide;a second signal path between the first waveguide and the third waveguide; anda third signal path between the first waveguide and the fourth waveguide; wherein the third signal path includes a first waveguide junction of the plurality of waveguide junctions to divide an input signal into a first divided signal and a second divided signal, and includes a second waveguide junction of the plurality of waveguide junctions to recombine at least a portion of the first divided signal and at least a portion of the second divided signal to form an output signal.