Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a dual-band shared power divider with the use bandwidth exceeding frequency triplex, which is used for solving the problems that the prior dual-band up multi-frequency shared power divider is difficult to suppress a high-order mode, the cross polarization of an antenna is poor and the engineering use requirement is difficult to meet. The power divider has the advantages of large relative bandwidth, low cross polarization, low standing wave ratio and other excellent electrical indexes, compact structure, easy processing and the like.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
the double-frequency shared power distributor with the bandwidth exceeding three times is a six-port microwave device and comprises an axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, four side wall branch waveguides and four H-plane bent waveguides, wherein the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide is a round transition waveguide, high-frequency signals are transmitted along the axial direction of the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, the four side wall branch waveguides are symmetrically distributed at 90 degrees along the axial direction of the multi-frequency shared waveguide and are low-frequency signal transmission channels, and the four side wall branch waveguides comprise filters and stepped impedance converters.
Further, the gradual curve of the round transition waveguide is a spline fitting curve.
Further, four rectangular ridge coupling openings are formed in the inner wall of the axial multi-frequency common waveguide and are symmetrically distributed around the axis of the axial multi-frequency common waveguide at 90 degrees, the long edges of the rectangular ridge coupling openings are in the axis direction, and an included angle between the end faces of the rectangular ridge coupling openings and the axis of the axial multi-frequency common waveguide is 7 degrees.
Furthermore, the filters of the side wall branch waveguides are of a two-stage filter cascade structure, the two-stage filters are all block mode filters, and symmetrical metal saw tooth structures are distributed at the inlet of the block mode filters up and down.
Furthermore, the first-stage filter of the block mode filter, which is close to the coupling port of the axial multifrequency common waveguide, is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the direction of the branch waveguide, and the second-stage filter is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the axial direction of the branch waveguide.
Furthermore, the cascade structure of the two-stage filter is embedded with a metal sheet parallel to the broadside of the filter in the center of the first-stage filter.
Further, the step impedance transformer of the side wall branch waveguide is a third-order rectangular waveguide step impedance transformer.
Compared with the background technology, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. The invention has the characteristics of large relative bandwidth, low cross polarization and low standing wave ratio, and has compact structure and easy processing.
2. The invention solves the problems of frequency separation and power distribution of the feed network system when the antenna is used in multiple frequencies from three frequencies to up, can effectively improve the influence of a higher order mode on the directional diagram of the feed system, reduces the cross polarization level of the antenna, and is suitable for engineering popularization.
3. The invention can enable the coupling of the high-frequency band main mode to each high-order mode to be below-20 dB when the maximum relative bandwidth exceeds 3.5 frequency multiplication through the novel branch filtering structure form and the coupling port design, improves the return loss of a high-frequency channel, reduces the system axial ratio of a circular polarization network and the linear polarization cross polarization component of the high-frequency channel, inhibits the high-order harmonic of a low-frequency passband, and is basically consistent with the cascading simulation result of a feed source and the simulation direction diagram of a single feed source. The multi-frequency shared power distributor is reasonable in design and can meet engineering application requirements.
Detailed Description
The technical scheme of the invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A dual-frequency shared power distributor with the bandwidth exceeding three times of frequency comprises an axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, a multi-stage side wall branch waveguide and an H-plane bent waveguide, wherein the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide is a round transition waveguide, high-frequency signals are transmitted along the axial direction of the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, and low-frequency signals are coupled to corresponding frequency side wall waveguide branches through coupling ports. The low-frequency branch transmission channel is in a four-way symmetrical structure except for high frequency. Each sidewall branch waveguide includes a filter and a stepped waveguide impedance transformer, and the filter is a two-stage filter cascade design.
The dual-frequency shared power divider is a six-port microwave device and comprises an axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, four side wall branch waveguides and four H-plane bent waveguides, wherein the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide is a round transition waveguide, high-frequency signals are axially transmitted along the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, the four side wall branch waveguides are symmetrically distributed at 90 degrees along the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide and are low-frequency signal transmission channels, and the side wall branch waveguides comprise a filter and a stepped impedance converter.
The axial round transition waveguide gradual change curve is designed by spline fitting.
Four rectangular ridge coupling openings are formed in the inner wall of the axial multi-frequency common waveguide, the four rectangular ridge coupling openings are symmetrically distributed around the axis of the multi-frequency common waveguide, the rectangular long edges are in the axis direction, and the included angle between the end faces of the coupling openings and the axis of the multi-frequency common waveguide is 7 degrees.
The filter of the side wall branch waveguide is designed as a block mode filter and is designed as a two-stage filter cascade, and the entrance of the block mode filter is of a symmetrical metal sawtooth structure distributed up and down instead of a rectangular cavity structure.
The first-stage filter of the block mode filter, which is close to the coupling port of the multi-frequency common waveguide, is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the direction of the branch waveguide, and the second-stage filter is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the axial direction of the branch waveguide.
The cascaded block mode filter is characterized in that a metal sheet parallel to the wide side of the filter is inlaid in the center of the first-stage filter.
The step impedance transformer of the side wall branch waveguide is a third-order rectangular waveguide step impedance transformer.
The multi-frequency shared power divider is always the most critical component of the multi-frequency network, functionally needs to complete high isolation separation of multiple frequency bands, and also realizes orthogonal polarization separation and equal power distribution of single polarization of a single frequency band, so that the multi-frequency shared power divider integrates the main functions of a traditional frequency duplexer and a broadband orthogonal mode coupler. As shown in fig. 1, the power splitter is a tapered six-port device from a physical perspective, and the power splitter is an 8-port device with two orthogonal polarizations in input and output from an electrical perspective. Specifically, the multi-frequency common power divider is mainly divided into a round transition, a transition section coupling port, a branching filter and an impedance matching design partition from the filter to the standard waveguide. The design core of the multi-frequency shared power divider is the coupling matching of the side wall low-frequency channel and the effective suppression of the high-frequency band high-order mode. In brief, the multi-frequency common power divider can be designed as follows:
1. determining the diameter size of a transition inlet and outlet of the circular waveguide according to the waveguide cutoff theory and the actual engineering requirements;
2. Searching an optimal transition curve, and determining the initial size of a coupling port of a low frequency band;
3. Designing and optimizing low-frequency branch filters of each stage;
4. Searching the optimal low-frequency branch coupling port position and the high-order mode optimal short-circuit position of each stage, and cascading optimized filters to perform double-frequency simulation optimization and verification;
5. And (3) fine tuning the branch parameters of the low-frequency filter and optimizing the impedance transformation section at the tail part of the branch waveguide to optimize the low-frequency impedance matching, and obtaining the optimal electrical design result of the four-arm coupling system after multiple iterations.
Further, as shown in fig. 2, the dual-band common power divider includes an axial multi-frequency common waveguide, four side-wall branched waveguides and four H-plane bent waveguides. As shown in fig. 3, the axial multifrequency common waveguide mainly comprises two design partitions of a round transition and a side wall coupling port, and in order to inhibit the axial higher-order mode excitation, a spline fitting curve design is adopted for a round transition curve.
Four rectangular ridge coupling openings are formed in the round transition curve and are symmetrically distributed around the axis of the multi-frequency common waveguide at 90 degrees, the long edges of the rectangles are in the axis direction, and the included angle between the end face of each coupling opening and the axis of the multi-frequency common waveguide is 7 degrees as shown in fig. 1.
Further, as shown in fig. 5, the sidewall branching waveguide includes a filter and a stepped impedance transformer. The filter is designed as a block mode filter and is designed as a cascade type of two-stage filters. The first-stage filter of the block mode filter, which is close to the coupling port of the multi-frequency common waveguide, is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the direction of the branch waveguide, and the second-stage filter is provided with only two rows of metal vertical teeth along the axial direction of the branch waveguide. The stepped impedance converter is a three-order rectangular waveguide stepped impedance converter, and finally the branch waveguide is converted to a standard outlet of a corresponding coupling frequency band. As shown in fig. 4, the block mode filter inlet is a symmetrical metal sawtooth structure distributed up and down, rather than a rectangular cavity structure.
Furthermore, the longitudinal slotting unit of the block mode filter has natural inhibition characteristics on the rectangular waveguide higher order mode, has ultra-wide channel and power capacity characteristics, and can meet the design requirement of the stop band exceeding the triple frequency engineering by selecting reasonable cutoff frequency.
Further, as shown in fig. 5, the cascaded block mode filter is embedded with a metal sheet parallel to the broadside of the filter in the center of the primary filter. The metal sheet is perpendicular to the main mode electric field component of the branch waveguide, and can effectively inhibit the high-order mode excitation of the reverse polarization component in the axial multi-frequency common waveguide in the coupling branch waveguide, thereby further improving the polarization isolation degree and improving the high-frequency cross polarization.
The back of the ladder impedance transformation section is connected with an H-plane bent waveguide which is in butt joint with other network components at the back end.
As shown in fig. 1, the working principle of the dual-band shared power divider is as follows:
When the double-frequency signals are received simultaneously, the low-frequency signals are transmitted to the coupling port of the side wall of the radio-frequency signal path of the multi-frequency shared waveguide, the low-frequency signals are coupled and matched and transmitted through the branch block mode filter 0dB, short-circuit inhibition is carried out on the high-frequency signals, the short-circuit inhibition is transmitted to the rear-end waveguide wiring through the low-frequency stepped impedance converter, the coupling port is formed in a similar position corresponding to the secondary low frequency on a round transition curve when the double-frequency signals are used in excess of three frequencies, the secondary low-frequency radio-frequency signals are coupled and matched and transmitted to the secondary low-frequency channel in 0dB, high-isolation inhibition on the front low-frequency signals and other high-frequency signals is completed when the path filter, and therefore, all stages of low-frequency signals are coupled and matched in sequence when the multi-frequency shared are output, and the highest-frequency signals are output in a low loss mode through the axial channel. The working principle is opposite when the multi-frequency signal is transmitted, and the description is omitted.
For ease of understanding, a typical dual-frequency common power divider is taken as an example, and the effects of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Embodiment CKu Dual-frequency shared Power Divider
The design frequency is C3.4 GHz-4.2 GHz, and Ku 10.7-14.5 GHz.
As shown in FIG. 1, the corresponding values of the main structural parameters of the dual-frequency shared power divider are as follows:
Round transition large-port diameter D1=62 mm, small-port diameter D2=20 mm, C frequency band filter entrance broadside W1=50 mm, rectangular ridge-adding coupling port width AOH1=25.6 mm.
Fig. 6 to 8 show simulation results of the dual-frequency common power divider. As can be seen from the graph, the using bandwidth reaches 3.75 times, the return loss S 1(1)1(1) of the main mode is smaller than-22 dB in the frequency bands of C and Ku, the index is excellent, the mutual coupling energy from the main mode to the nth high-order mode mainly returns to the public port, the coupling degree of the main mode is smaller than-20 dB in the frequency band of Ku, the frequency band isolation of the main mode to the high frequency band is represented by S 3(1)1(1), namely the inhibition degree of the low frequency band to the high frequency band, and the inhibition degree of the C frequency band to the main mode of Ku is larger than 78dB.
In summary, the dual-band shared power divider of the present invention includes waveguide tracks including an axial multi-frequency shared waveguide, a multi-stage sidewall branched waveguide, an H-plane bent waveguide, etc., the axial multi-frequency shared waveguide is a high-frequency signal transmission channel, the low-frequency sidewall branched waveguide is axially distributed, and the low-frequency signal corresponding sidewall branched waveguide is symmetrically distributed in four ways relative to the multi-frequency shared waveguide. The invention has the advantages of large relative bandwidth, low cross polarization, low standing wave ratio and other excellent electrical indexes, compact structure, easy processing and the like. The core problems of frequency separation, polarization separation and power distribution during the use of the antenna multi-frequency co-spraying are solved, and the requirements of most multi-frequency broadband fixed stations and vehicle-mounted stations can be met.
It should be noted that the foregoing descriptions and examples are provided to assist those skilled in the art in understanding the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any implementation of various modifications, zooms, modified improvements and/or deletions without departing from the essence of the invention shall fall within the protection scope of the invention.