what is imbalance monitoring in power divider?

[alimalakooti]

Hi
I've come across the term of imbalance monitoring in Gysel power divider and I dont know its meaning and also why Gysel has this feature while Wilkinson has not?
Thanks for any help

 

[alimalakooti]

no one wants to help me?

 

[biff44]

well, it has 5 ports. so if you replace the 2 50 ohm loads with 2 power sensors, then any imbalance will show up as non-zero power at one of the detectors.

 

[alimalakooti]

ok. but why we cannot use this power sensors in Wilkinson power divider? is it hard to implement or sth like that?

 

[biff44]

is this a trick question? Since a wilkinson has only 3 ports, there are no extra ports for power sensors.

 

[alimalakooti]

thanks for ur helpful cms I've another quwstion in this posthttps://www.edaboard.com/threads/280614/ could u help me about this?