Abstract: Embodiments of a circuit, system, and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a circuit includes a first microstrip transmission line, a second microstrip transmission line, and a slotline formation, wherein the slotline formation extends between the first microstrip transmission line and the second microstrip transmission line so that the slotline formation is configured to electromagnetically couple the first microstrip transmission line to the second microstrip transmission line during operation of the circuit. In addition, the circuit includes at least one controllable capacitance circuit electrically connected to at least one of the first microstrip transmission line and the second microstrip transmission line, wherein a magnitude of capacitance of the at least one controllable capacitance circuit is controllable (e.g., in response to a capacitance control signal received at a control interface).

Abstract: There are disclosed acoustic diplexers and radios incorporating the acoustic diplexers. A diplexer includes common port, a low band port, a high band port, n low band sub-filters, and n high band sub-filters, where n is an integer greater than one. Each low band sub-filter has a first sub-filter port connected to the common port and a second sub-filter port connected to the low band port. Each high band sub-filter has a first sub-filter port connected to the common port and a second sub-filter port connected to the high band port. A first acoustic resonator is connected from the common port to ground and a second acoustic resonator is connected from the low band port to ground. The first and second acoustic resonators are configured to create respective transmission zeros adjacent to a lower edge of a passband of the diplexer.

Abstract: A waveguide microstrip line converter includes a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor, and a line conductor. The ground conductor is provided on a first surface of the dielectric substrate and is joined to an open end that is an end portion of the waveguide. The slot is formed in a region surrounded by an opening edge portion of the open end of the ground conductor. The line conductor is provided on a second surface of the dielectric substrate. The line conductor includes first portions that are the microstrip lines, a second portion located just above the slot, and third portions responsible for impedance matching between the first portions and the second portion. The third portions each include an impedance transforming unit that is a portion having a wider line width than the first portions.

Abstract: The harmonic combiner and divider efficiently combines multiple harmonic signals onto a common transmission line. Combined harmonic signals can be used to generate fast, high-fidelity arbitrary waveforms by superimposing the harmonics described in their Fourier series. Fast arbitrary waveforms have applications in communications, radar, and can be used for manipulating and controlling charged particle beams. The harmonic combiner and divider also efficiently divides fast arbitrary waveforms into their constituent harmonics and provides an efficient mechanism for waveform analysis and for multi-channel communications.

Abstract: An apparatus for a coaxial transmission line is provided. The apparatus can include a first and a second section of a conductor of the coaxial transmission line and a connector for connecting the first and the second sections in end-to-end relation. Each of the first and the second sections of the conductor have an exterior lateral surface and an interior lateral surface. For inner conductors, the connector is connected to the interior lateral surfaces of the first and second sections of the conductor. For outer conductors, the connector is connected to the exterior lateral surfaces of the first and second sections of the conductor. The connector allows the inner and outer diameters of the annulus between the inner and outer conductors line to be substantially uniform along the length of the coaxial transmission line.

Abstract: A power amplifier module includes a combining circuit including a combiner. The combining circuit further includes a first inductor connected in series between an output terminal of a first amplifier and the combiner, a second inductor connected in series between an output terminal of a second amplifier and the combiner, and a second capacitor having an end connected to the combiner and another end grounded. A phase of a third signal from the output terminal of the first amplifier to the second amplifier through the combiner is delayed by about 45 degrees in the first inductor and the second capacitor, and is delayed by about 45 degrees in the second inductor and the second capacitor. A phase of the third signal from the output terminal of the first amplifier to the second amplifier through the first capacitor is advanced by about 90 degrees.

Abstract: In certain aspects, a receiver includes first amplifiers, wherein each one of the first amplifiers comprises an input and an output. The receiver also includes second amplifiers, wherein each one of the second amplifiers comprises an input and an output, and the outputs of the second amplifiers are coupled to a combining node. The receiver also includes transmission lines, wherein each one of the transmission lines is coupled between the output of a respective one of the first amplifiers and the input of a respective one of the second amplifiers. The receiver further includes a load coupled to the combining node, and receiver elements, wherein each one of the receiver elements comprises an input and an output, and the output of each one of the receiver elements is coupled to the input of a respective one of the first amplifiers.

Abstract: A series noise absorption circuit, comprises: a differential signal transmission cable and a matching circuit. The differential signal transmission cable is electrically connected to two signal feedlines. The differential signal transmission has a first and second transmission line, the first transmission line and the second transmission line are configured to receive a differential pair of input signals from the two signal feedlines. The matching circuit is connected in series with the second transmission line. The matching circuit is configured to receive a reflective electrical signal from a noise reflection circuit, and match an input impedance corresponding the series noise absorption circuit with a common-mode impedance corresponding the two signal feedlines. A distance between the matching circuit and the noise reflection circuit is a minimal electrical length. The minimal electrical length is associated with a real part and an imaginary part of a matching impedance of the matching circuit.

Abstract: A communication module includes an input/output switch, a duplexer, a transmit filter, and a receive filter. In the duplexer, a second side is disposed at a position farther from the input/output switch than a first side in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction. Any one of the transmit filter and the receive filter is disposed adjacent to the input/output switch in the first direction.

Abstract: Heat exchanger assemblies for electronic devices are disclosed. A heat exchanger assembly may include a heat transfer body that has a face that forms open passageways. A cover structure may be attached to the heat transfer body in a manner to enclose the open passageways, thereby forming a heat exchanger assembly that includes enclosed fluid conduits. In this regard, the enclosed fluid conduits may form complex and intricate patterns within the heat exchanger assembly that are tailored to the heat requirements of a particular application. Heat exchanger assemblies as described herein may be thermally coupled to a center waveguide section of a spatial power-combining device. The enclosed fluid conduits may be tailored based on locations of amplifiers within the center waveguide section to provide improved thermal operation of the spatial power-combining device.

Abstract: A grounding structure of the high-frequency circuit board includes a dielectric substrate, a back surface ground electrode, an upper ground electrode, and a microstripline upper electrode. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and is provided with a first through-hole. A first opening of the first through-hole at the first surface is smaller than a second opening of the first through-hole at the second surface. A first grounding conductor layer is provided in the first through-hole. The back surface ground electrode is provided at the second surface and is connected with the first grounding conductor layer. The upper ground electrode is provided at the first surface and is connected with the first ground conductor layer. The microstripline upper electrode is provided at the first surface.

Abstract: A power combiner for combining a plurality of radio frequency signals into a combined output signal includes: a circular waveguide having a cross-section and three or more waveguides, each waveguide morphing to align with a common axis at a cross-section of the circular waveguide wherein each one of the three or more rectangular input waveguides gradually transitions from a rectangular cross-section to a cross-section resembling a pie slice of a composite circular cross section.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an RF system includes a transmit path having a first tunable transmit band stop filter, and a power amplifier coupled to an output of the first tunable transmit band stop filter, where the first tunable transmit band stop filter is configured reject a receive frequency and pass a transmit frequency; a receive path comprising an LNA; and a duplex filter having a transmit path port coupled to an output of the power amplifier, a receive path port coupled to an input of the LNA, and an antenna port, where the duplex filter is configured to pass the transmit frequency and reject the receive frequency between the antenna port and the transmit path port, pass the receive frequency and reject the transmit frequency between the antenna port and the receive path port.

Abstract: A microwave resonator comprising a hollow tube comprising fan electrically conductive tube wall which defines a tube bore, the tube extending along a length axis from a first end to a second end; a first electrically conductive closing plate closing the first end of the tube; a second electrically conductive closing plate closing the second end of the tube; a plurality of dielectric resonant pucks, each puck comprising first and second end faces and a side wall extending therebetween, each puck being dimensioned such that its dominant mode is a doubly degenerate mode; the pucks being arranged within the tube bore spaced apart from each other and the closing plates, each puck being arranged with its end faces normal to the length axis and centered on the length axis and its side wall abutting the tube wall such that there is no air gap between the puck and tube wall which extends from one end face to the other of the puck, the puck adjacent to the first closing plate being termed the input puck; each puck bein

Abstract: A duo-quad wideband wave guide combiner includes a circular waveguide having a center axis with a cross section with four quadrants; and two waveguides, each waveguide being bifurcated at an input to the wave guide combiner by a thin septum to split each of the two waveguide into two bifurcated waveguides, each of the bifurcated waveguides rotating to a respective one of the four quadrants about the center axis of the circular waveguide with converging walls terminating when a composite cross section becomes circular.

Abstract: Wideband waveguide to coaxial low loss signal couplers use an electro-magnetic wire loop inserted perpendicularly in a slot in the top cover of the waveguide transmission line. In order to adapt also to various power levels and associated receiver sensitivity, the coupling factor can be modified by controlling the penetration of the wire loop inside the waveguide cavity. Coupling and Directivity are approximately constant and track over the WR bandwidth up to WR-10. A calibration method allows full characterization of a coupler-tuner assembly.

Abstract: A waveguide filter includes a fundamental waveguide unit. The fundamental waveguide unit may have an irregular hexagonal metal structure. One wall of the irregular hexagonal metal structure may form a connection to one or more walls of another fundamental waveguide unit having an irregular hexagonal metal structure. A fundamental waveguide unit may include a hollow irregular hexagonal metal structure which includes a resonant cavity that receives an electromagnetic signal and propagates the signal through the resonant cavity.

Abstract: Provided is a noise filter device that is capable of suppressing electrical interference between an input-side conductive line and an output-side conductive line. A noise filter device (10) includes: a noise filter (50) connected to a distal end of an input-side conductive line (41) and a distal end of an output-side conductive line (42); and a holding member (60) that holds the input-side conductive line (41) and the output-side conductive line (42). The holding member (60) includes: a body (61) attached to a wire harness (WH) so as to surround an outer circumference thereof; and a pair of hooks (62) that are respectively formed at two ends of the body (61) in a circumferential direction thereof, and are hooked on the input-side conductive line (41) and the output-side conductive line (42) to restrict the input-side conductive line (41) and the output-side conductive line (42) from approaching each other.

Abstract: A distributor and a synthesizer with low loss are disclosed. In one example, a distributor/synthesizer has a distribution line that distributes a path from an input branch unit connected to an external transmission line on an input side into n-distributed paths. An output branch unit divides the n-distributed paths into an internal side and an external transmission line on an output side. On the internal side, a phase adjustment unit is arranged between the output branch unit and a coupling terminal, and adjusts the phase. A phase rotation amount from the input branch unit to the output branch unit of each of the n-distributed paths is ?/2 [rad], and a phase rotation amount from the output branch unit to the coupling terminal is ? [rad] or a real number multiple of ? [rad]. The present disclosure can, for example, be applied to an FEM of a signal processing device.

Abstract: This application discloses a filtering apparatus, including: a coupling channel distinguishing component, dividing a coupling channel between a first filtering component and a second filtering component into a plurality of independent coupling channels, and it includes a channel distinguishing component and at least one decoupling component, the channel distinguishing component is configured to divide the coupling channel into a plurality of independent channels, and the decoupling component is configured to decouple the plurality of independent channels into the plurality of independent coupling channels; and at least one adjusting component, each of the adjusting component is configured to adjust a preset coupling scheme of a corresponding independent coupling channel, each of the at least one adjusting component is located in the corresponding independent coupling channel, and each of the adjusting component is located in a corresponding projection area.