{"title":"High power and efficiency power combining with multi-way TWTAs for satellite communications","authors":"S. Dong, Yazhou Dong, Ying Wang, Liming Gong","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259402","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A high efficiency power combining demonstration is presented in this paper of 4 K-band TWTAs based on magic-T corporate combiners. A low loss, amplitude and phase balanced, high power corporate magic-T combiner is designed. Power combining efficiencies of greater than 90% and output power of more than 340W over a 0.6 GHz frequency band are successfully demonstrated. Such hybrid junctions can also be considered as elements within a corporate combining architecture for much higher power generating for satellite communications or other industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":6385,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259402","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A high efficiency power combining demonstration is presented in this paper of 4 K-band TWTAs based on magic-T corporate combiners. A low loss, amplitude and phase balanced, high power corporate magic-T combiner is designed. Power combining efficiencies of greater than 90% and output power of more than 340W over a 0.6 GHz frequency band are successfully demonstrated. Such hybrid junctions can also be considered as elements within a corporate combining architecture for much higher power generating for satellite communications or other industrial applications.