A Novel Wideband Wilkinson Pulse Combiner with Enhanced Low Frequency Isolation

Abstract

In this paper, a novel Wilkinson pulse combiner (WPC) is proposed for the combination of Gaussian pulse signals. The WPC requires a very wide bandwidth, small size and high port isolation. To improve the operating bandwidth, the design adopts the form of eight-section WPC. Eight capacitors are connected in series with the isolating resistors of each section. After capacitive loading, isolation between WPC input ports is significantly improved at low frequency. Consequently, the operating bandwidth of WPC has been increased from 13:1 to 31:1. Compared with the conventional Wilkinson combiner with the same bandwidth, the proposed WPC reduces the size by 40%. In addition, all the ports are well impedance matched and the insertion loss in the operating frequency band is less than 0.5 dB. To verify the feasibility of the design, a prototype was fabricated and measured. Experiment shows that the novel WPC is more advantageous to generate dual-Gaussian pulse signals.