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Design of a 3.7 GHz, 1 kW CW, Hybrid Radial Power Divider for LHCD System of SST-1 Tokamak


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Authors
Sandeep Sainkar,Sandeep Sainkar ,Aviraj Jadhav,Harish Dixit,Promod Sharma,J John & Alice Cheeran
Publisher
Elsevier B.v.
Publishing Date
01-Sep-2021
volume
173
Issue
112864
Pages
1-7

This paper presents a novel design of an 8-way radial power divider/combiner that exhibits low insertion loss and minimum phase imbalance. The proposed design is realized using combined features of resonant and nonresonant based power dividing/combining structures to reap the benefits of both kinds of designs. The multilayered power divider is designed to operate at a frequency of 3.7 GHz for possible use in Lower Hybrid systems for fusion applications. The structure is simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics to evaluate its RF and thermal performance. Simulation results indicate that the proposed power divider exhibited an amplitude and phase imbalance of ±0.05 dB and ±0.1? respectively between the peripheral ports. The computed return loss for the input port of the power divider is around 56 dB while the insertion loss is approximately 0.24 dB. Coupled RF-thermal simulation results indicate the capability of this design to handle continuous wave (CW) power of up to 1 kW. The proposed device is intended to be narrowband and would be used in the 1 kW solid state RF source under development at the authors’ institute.

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