Design and breadboarding of a compact and tuningless triplexer for satellite applications

Author

Accatino, L. ; Piovano, B. ; Vercellino, G. ; Ravanelli, R.

Author_Institution

CSELT, Torino, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

13-18 July 1997

Firstpage

1418

Abstract

The component described is a novel type of triplexer for telecommunication and telemetry channels, designed and fabricated in the frame of Eutelsat W24 program. This triplexer is composed of two transmit channels and one receive channel at Ku-band. All channels have been implemented as H-plane metal-insert filters, connected to the input guide through a stepped three-furcation. This configuration, which represents an innovation in the breadboard of such a type of component, has shown an excellent degree of mechanical compactness along with a very interesting electrical performance, without the need of any post-manufacturing tuning.

Keywords

Chebyshev filters; band-pass filters; microwave filters; multiplexing; multiplexing equipment; radio equipment; radiotelemetry; satellite communication; satellite telemetry; waveguide filters; 11 to 14 GHz; Eutelsat W24 program; H-plane metal-insert filters; Ku-band; breadboarding; compact tuningless triplexer; design; electrical performance; input guide; mechanical compactness; receive channel; satellite applications; stepped three-furcation; telecommunication channel; telemetry channels; transmit channels; Artificial satellites; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Design optimization; Electromagnetic waveguides; Frequency; Loss measurement; Narrowband; Prototypes; Reflection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1997. IEEE., 1997 Digest

Conference_Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4178-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1997.631863

Filename

631863