Wideband Four-Way Out-of-Phase Slotline Power Dividers

Two new wideband four-way out-of-phase slotline power dividers are proposed in this paper. The half-wavelength slotlines are employed to construct the presented compact power dividers. Based on the proposed power-dividing circuit, a four-way power divider is implemented with compact size and simple structure. To obtain high isolation among the four output ports and good output impedance matching, another four-way out-of-phase slotline power divider with improved isolation performance is designed by introducing an air-bridge resistor and two slotlines with isolation resistors. The simulated and measured results of the proposed power dividers demonstrate reasonable performance of impedance matching, insertion loss, amplitude balancing, and isolation among the output ports.

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