Multioctave Spatial Power Combining in Oversized Coaxial Waveguide
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We describe a multioctave power-combiner structure using finline arrays in an oversized coaxial waveguide. The spectral-domain method (SDM) is used to compute the propagation constant in this structure, and is verified with HFSS simulations. The SDM method is then employed to synthesize broad-band tapered impedance transformers in finline for coupling energy to and from a set of monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers. A modular assembly is described using a sectoral tray architecture. The concept is demonstrate for a 32-MMIC system using low-power traveling-wave amplifier MMICs, providing a 3-dB bandwidth of 13 GHz (3–16 GHz). An output combining loss of 1 dB is estimated from the small-signal measurements, suggestion a combining efficiency of 75% for 32 MMICs.
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