A consideration on broadbanding of n‐way hybrid power dividers

Abstract

A method is presented for broadbanding an n‐way power divider in which an absorbing resistor is used in one section. In the conventional Wilkinson power divider, it is known that the waves, equally reflected at the terminations, are absorbed by a resistor at the center frequency if a quarter‐wave line is connected to one of the output ports. To construct a 2n‐way power divider from a combination of these two‐way power dividers, 2n sections of lines are needed. In this paper, we constructed a network, which absorbs reflected waves, by connecting a 1/4‐wavelength section to an n‐way one‐section power divider if the characteristic impedance of the line and the absorbing resistor are optimized by numerical calculation. The circuit shown in the text has a broadband VSWR characteristic if attenuation of the transfer at the center frequency is permitted. The transmission characteristics then become flat, and the isolation characteristics are also improved.