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Compact All-metal In-line Combline Coaxial Cavity Diplexer

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https://doi.org/10.26636/jtit.2024.4.1783

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cavity, combline resonators, diplexer, L band

Abstract

This article describes the design of an all-metal combline coaxial cavity diplexer. The device is based on a Y-shaped star-resonant junction which allows to achieve a compact design by positioning the two channels in an in-line and side-by-side arrangement. The channels share the same geometry and are tuned to resonance using screws. The device was designed using the coupling matrix method. For verification, a combline cavity diplexer was manufactured and tested for E1 Galileo (1559-1591 GHz) and Iridium (1606-1638 GHz) applications with fractional bandwidth equaling 2% for both channels. The order and the return loss of each channel are 5 and 19.4 dB, respectively. The volume is 154.1 × 36 × 27.8 mm³, corresponding to a normalized volume of 0.810 × 0.189 × 0.146 λ³. The normalized volume per resonator is as low as 0.0047 λ³, while isolation is better than 55 dB. The ratio between the unloaded quality factor and the normalized volume per resonator is as high as 19.8 × 10⁴ λ⁻³. The design is very easy to manufacture, since it is all-metal and has a simple geometry.

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2024-10-02

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Giannetti, G., Maddio, S., & Boni, E. (2024). Compact All-metal In-line Combline Coaxial Cavity Diplexer. Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 4(4), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.26636/jtit.2024.4.1783