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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1980
Pang T Ho, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael D Rubin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An impedance transforming coupler is disclosed which may be used as a power divider or power combiner at microwave frequencies. The power division or power combination ratio is arbitrary, and the impedance transformation ratio is arbitrary. These couplers may be used in a circuit to power-combine amplifiers. The insertion loss of the circuit is low and the bandwidth is improved by an order of two to one over prior art systems which had separate circuits for matching the impedance and providing power combining. The coupler is optimally a branch line coupler having four curved branches a quarter wavelength long at the center frequency. The output ports are 90.degree. out of phase. Simple formulas are given relating the desired admittances of each of the four branches to k, the desired power coupling ratio, and Y, the desired admittance transformation ratio.