Quadrature differential output six‐port rat‐race coupler

Abstract

This letter describes a design method for a six-port rat race circuit to obtain quadrature differential waveforms from a single end. The proposed six-port rat-race coupler succeeded in low insertion loss and wide bandwidth by using a 1/2 wavelength transmission line and an open stub. Over the frequency range from 0.89 to 1.05 GHz, a prototype 0.96-GHz-band six-port rat-race coupler was confirmed to have a transmission loss of 7.03 ± 0.45 dB, a reflection loss and isolation of 15 dB or more, and a phase error of within ± 3.3 ○.