Wideband Unequal Power Divider With Enhanced Power Dividing Ratio, Fully Matching Bandwidth, and Filtering Performance

Abstract

A new class of wideband unequal power divider with enhanced power dividing ratio, fully matching bandwidth, and filtering performance is presented. A leading triple-mode resonator is inserted in front of the power dividing junction to relax the requirement of high impedance and bring in more poles in input return loss (RL) response and isolation response. Therefore, the power dividing ratio is significantly enhanced and bandwidths of input RL and isolation are enlarged. Moreover, the cascade of the leading triple-mode resonator and the following transmission line segments corporately construct Chebyshev filtering performance. Thus, the power divider can be synthesized by the required bandwidth of RL and power dividing ratio. Examples of 4:1 and 8:1 filtering power dividers operating at 2.4 GHz are designed and fabricated. The measured power dividing ratios of two filtering power dividers are 3.8:1 and 8.1:1 with corresponding RL bandwidths of 95.8% and 97.5% (| S₁₁| < -10 dB), and the measured port-to-port isolation bandwidths are 100% (| S₃₂| < -14 dB) and 100% (| S₃₂| < -20 dB), respectively.