Broadband Radial Waveguide Spatial Combiner

A broadband eight-way spatial combiner using coaxial probes and radial waveguides has been proposed and designed. The simple electromagnetic modeling for the radial waveguide power divider/combiner has been developed using equivalent-circuit method. The measured 10-dB return loss and 1-dB insertion loss bandwidth of this waveguide spatial combiner are all demonstrated to be about 8 GHz.

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