Broadbanding techniques for TEM N-way power dividers

Broadband TEM power dividers have traditionally involved multisection or taper designs. The author briefly reviews compensation techniques that can be used to achieve broadband designs with one or two sections. The compensating elements can be either lumped or distributed. The suggested techniques involve transmission lines and isolation resistors. These principles are discussed for several practical designs, including broadband lumped-element power dividers. The experimental components that were fabricated based on these principles were well described by the computed results.<>