Ridged waveguide manifold multiplexers with improved performance

Author

Goussetis, G. ; Shelkovnikov, A. ; Budimir, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ. of Technol., UK

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

207

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the bandwidth improvement of a multiplexer overcoming the limitations imposed by the poor stopband performance of standard waveguide E-plane filters. Bandwidth improvement is achieved by introducing an integrated compact ridge waveguide filter in the multiplexer. A four-channel X-band ridged waveguide manifold multiplexer is used as an example. Electromagnetic modelling of the multiplexer and experimental verification of an integrated ridge waveguide filter are presented.

Keywords

band-stop filters; computational electromagnetics; multiplexing equipment; ridge waveguides; waveguide components; waveguide filters; waveguide theory; 5.2 to 10.9 GHz; bandwidth improvement; electromagnetic modelling; four-channel X-band ridged waveguide manifold multiplexer; integrated compact ridge waveguide filter; integrated ridge waveguide filter; ridged waveguide manifold multiplexers; standard waveguide E-plane filters; stopband performance; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Electromagnetic waveguides; Frequency; Microwave filters; Multiplexing; Passband; Power harmonic filters; Resonator filters; Waveguide components;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2003. 33rd European

Print_ISBN

1-58053-834-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2003.1262254

Filename

1262254