Title :
A wide-band forward coupler with balanced composite right-/left-handed transmission lines
Author :
Hirota, Atsushi ; Tahara, Yasuyuki ; Yoneda, N.
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. This paper presents a novel wide-band forward coupler with balanced composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission lines. In the proposed couplers, the proposed forward couplers are a balanced CRLH transmission lines simultaneously in even/odd modes. Thus, the proposed forward coupler has a wide-band characteristic. The proposed forward coupler is simulated and experimentally demonstrated in S-band. We have designed a 0 dB forward coupler and the bandwidth is 36.5% in the experiments.
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-754-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-645X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5973390
