Abstract

A contiguous planar diplexer in suspended stripline technology with ultrawideband channels from DC to 40 GHz and 40 GHz to 80 GHz is presented. The design of the diplexer is based on quasi-complementary LC lowpass and highpass prototypes which are directly transformed into transmission line elements by using a quasi-lumped approach. This very straightforward design procedure requires no susceptance annulling networks and no introduction of unit elements which could limit the diplexer's operation bandwidth. For achieving an optimal compatibility with external circuits, an ultra-broadband SSL-MSL (suspended stripline - microstrip line) transition with a return loss of more than 18 dB from DC to 83 GHz was designed. The realized diplexer is extremely compact (6×4.5mm) and features a return loss of more than 12 dB from DC to 81 GHz with very low channel insertion losses of typically less than 1 dB after proper optimization.

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