Generalized high‐isolation n‐way Gysel power divider with arbitrary power ratio and different real terminated impedances

Abstract

An exact closed-form design approach for a generalized high-power n-way Gysel power divider is proposed. The power divider could be designed to achieve an arbitrary power ratio with the flexible multiway application, arbitrary real terminated impedance, excellent isolation, and easy fabrication through both planar and three-dimensional structures. Moreover, this improved power divider could maintain high power processing capacity through the coaxial cavity transmission line and grounding resistances. The exact analytical solutions related to ideal port matching and high isolation are obtained based on the circuit and transmission-line theory. To verify the proposed approach, a compact 3-way coaxial power divider with a pre-designed power ratio of 1:1.5:2 and four different real terminated impedances of 50, 55, 60, and 65 Ω is designed and fabricated. Excellent agreement is achieved between the simulated and measured results. Measurements from 4.7 to 5.7 GHz show that the return losses of all input and output ports are better than 15 dB. The maximum insertion loss is 0.5 dB, and the phase imbalance is approximately less than 6.1°. In addition, the isolation between any two output ports is better than 23 dB from 4.5 to 6 GHz. Meanwhile, the power handling capability can reach the maximum power of the commercial 50 Ω SMA connectors (2.098 kW).