On the Design of Finline Couplers

This paper presents how hybrid ring and hybrid couplers in finline technology can easily be designed Accurate analytical expressions for the effective permittivity and impedance are given. These expressions concern unilateral finlines with one or two slots. By the use of these relations. the analysis and the synthesis of couplers can be pointed out in few seconds using a Personal Computer. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoritical ones.