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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1985
Arvind K Sharma, Mercer County, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A waveguide power combiner or splitter (divider) includes a common waveguide having an axis skewed relative to the axes of a line array waveguides. A sectoral parabolic reflector is oriented with its focus at a port of the common waveguide with its axis parallel with the axes of the waveguides of the array for reflecting signals from the focal point to create a locus of constant phase at the ports of the waveguide array, whereby signal power originating at the common waveguide is divided equally among the waveguides of the waveguide array. A waveguide power amplifier includes a power splitter as described above, and an amplifier module located in each waveguide of the waveguide array to amplify the power therein to produce amplified signal in an output waveguide array. The amplified signals from the amplifier modules are combined by a second reflector driven by the output waveguide array and reflected to a common output port.