Multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler

Abstract

The invention discloses a multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler. The multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler includes a main rectangular waveguide which is used as a microwave main channel, an auxiliary rectangular waveguide which is used as a sampling signal channel, and coupling holes which are used as the coupling channel, wherein a master mode H plane of the main rectangular waveguide and a master mode H plane of the auxiliary rectangular waveguide are parallel to each other; the main rectangular waveguide and the auxiliary rectangular waveguide are isolated from each other, and are communicated through the coupling holes which are arranged along the axis of the main rectangular waveguide; and the coupling holes include a first row of coupling holes and a second row of coupling holes which are midline-symmetrical in the transmission direction for the wide wall of the main rectangular waveguide. The multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler is simple in structure and is easy for processing; the whole structure of the multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler only has six coupling holes, and can be implemented by means of direct usage of a traditional technology on a cavity; through a simulation test, the multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler has wider operation bandwidth and lower insertion loss; and compared with a traditional waveguide coupler, the multi-hole rectangular waveguide directional coupler has the advantages of being small in volume, being simple in structure, and being able to be conveniently integrated in a high frequency band circuit.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of porous directional couplers, in particular to a porous rectangular waveguide directional coupler coupled by six symmetrical holes. Background technique [0002] The directional coupler is a microwave / millimeter wave component widely used in microwave systems. It is mainly used for signal isolation, separation and mixing; the directional coupler is composed of two transmission lines, coaxial line, rectangular waveguide, circular waveguide , striplines and microstrip lines can all constitute directional couplers; so from the structural point of view, there are many types of directional couplers with great differences, but from the perspective of their coupling mechanism, they are mainly divided into four types, namely, small hole coupling, Parallel coupling, branch coupling and matched double T. [0003] The first real directional coupler was designed and implemented by H.A. Wheeler in 1944. Wheeler used a...

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[0003] The first real directional coupler was designed and implemented by H.A. Wheeler in 1944. Wheeler used a pair of cylinders with a length of a quarter of the center frequency wavelength to achieve mutual coupling of electric and magnetic fields. Unfortunately, this method can only achieve a bandwidth of one octave

[0004] At present, the main directional couplers include microstrip and waveguide directional couplers. However, microstrip lines are not suitable for working in the millimeter wave band due to their large transmission loss. Although non-planar waveguide structures such as dielectric waveguides and rectangular waveguides have small losses and high performance, they are Due to its large size and difficulty in integrated processing, it is difficult to be widely used in highly integrated systems

[0005] The traditional single-hole directional coupler has some advantages: such as simple structure, few parameters, and it is more convenient to design; but it also has some disadvantages: such as narrow bandwidth and poor directivity, it is only suitable for working at the design frequency, and it deviates from this frequency , the directionality will decrease

[0006] Although the traditional porous directional coupler can achieve a wide bandwidth and improve the directivity, it also has some disadvantages, such as large volume, high processing precision requirements, and high insertion loss, especially in the millimeter-wave terahertz band. Excessive insertion loss makes the device useless

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