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Application of polynomial design of multiplexers to the implementation of a manifold microstrip triplexer
Author(s) -
Rebenaque David Cañete,
Macchiarella Giuseppe
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of rf and microwave computer‐aided engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1099-047X
pISSN - 1096-4290
DOI - 10.1002/mmce.20705
Subject(s) - multiplexer , dimensioning , microstrip , bandwidth (computing) , computer science , channel (broadcasting) , manifold (fluid mechanics) , band pass filter , planar , electronic engineering , multiplexing , engineering , telecommunications , mechanical engineering , computer graphics (images) , aerospace engineering
This article presents a microstrip implementation of a manifold multiplexer. The design procedure is based on evaluation, through an efficient synthesis algorithm recently proposed, of the characteristic polynomials of the triplexer, including the channel filters. Both the manifold and channel filters parameters are also available at the end of the synthesis. This approach, based on polynomial modeling of the triplexer, has been experimentally validated for the first time through a practical implementation in planar technology. The fabricated prototype consists of three channel filters of third order centered at 1.84, 1.95, and 2.14 GHz, with bandwidth of 75, 60, and 60 MHz respectively. This work illustrates in detail the design and implementation of the practical triplexer, starting from the initial specifications and obtaining the final physical dimensions of the structure. Following the technique here shown, each filter is synthesized taking into account for the loading effects of the whole manifold; the filters dimensioning can be carried out with the filters separated from the multiplexer. In this way the optimization tasks are greatly simplified as compared with previous techniques for multiplexer design. The measured results of a manufactured prototype show return losses under 17 dB and minimum isolation between channels equal to 25 dB. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 23:690–698, 2013.