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High-Power, Low-Loss, Radial Rf Power Dividers/Combiners
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- A. Jain, A. Gupta, P. R. Hannurkar, D. Sharma
RRCAT, Indore (M. P.)
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A 20 kW Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) at 352 MHz development is in progress at RRCAT. This design uses radial splitting and combining architecture in which the signal is divided into a number of individual parts. Each individual part is then amplified by a respective amplifier of 200 W. The outputs of the amplifiers are then combined into a single output that achieves final output power of the order of 1.5 kW to 4 kW. As a part of this system, two high power combiners have been designed and developed. One is 8 way with output ports opposite to input port. Second one is 16 way with radial output ports. Both of these designs are compact with 20 cm diameter of outer radial disk. Input ports are N connector, while output port is 15/8” rigid coaxial line. Measured performance of these two designs shows insertion loss of 0.6 dB and input VSWR of 1.09. Radial architecture uses in-phase, non-resonant radial transmission line structures.
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