Design of Ring-Manifold Microwave Multiplexers

Author

Zewani, Mohammed ; Hunter, Ian C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microwave & Photonics, Leeds Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

11-16 June 2006

Firstpage

689

Lastpage

692

Abstract

A ring manifold for connecting microstrip bandpass channel filters to form a multiplexer has been developed. A method of connecting the bandpass filters to the ring has been devised, all ports are well matched in their passband, and highly isolated. By modifying the length of the feed lines which connect the filters to the ring, it has been shown that the filters can be connected to the ring to form a multiplexer without significant interaction. Experimental results for the multiplexer are given to verify the technique, and show good agreement with the simulated results

Keywords

channel bank filters; microstrip filters; multiplexing equipment; waveguide components; bandpass filters; microstrip bandpass channel filters; microstrip filters; microwave filters; microwave multiplexers; ring manifold; Band pass filters; Feeds; Frequency; Impedance; Joining processes; Microstrip filters; Microwave filters; Microwave photonics; Multiplexing; Passband; Bandpass filters; microstrip filters; microwave filters; multiplexing; multiport circuits; planar transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2006. IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9541-7

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2006.249726

Filename

4014997