Comparative Study of Transmission Line Junction vs. Asynchronously Coupled Junction Diplexers

A conventional diplexer with a T-junction transmission line is designed in this work and compared with a new approach of designing a diplexer using the asynchronously coupled resonant junction (ACJ). The use of ACJ is to explore its features associated with enhancing the output response of the diplexer as well as its ease in control and implementation of the external couplings at the common port of an all-resonator-base diplexer. The measured and simulated responses of the diplexers were compared, and they agreed with each other.