Experimental Characterisation of Moreno Cross Slot Couplers for Blass Matrix Design

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental characterisation of Moreno cross-slot coupler which is the basic building block of multiple beam forming network (Blass matrix). The lack of exact theory of such coupler requires extensive experimental evaluation. A novel test jig has been designed, fabricated and tested for this purpose. The experimental results for different scattering parameters are presented.