Channel Expansion and Tolerance Analysis of Waveguide Manifold Multiplexers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 1591-1594

  Liang, Xiao Peng ^a   Zaki, Kawthar A ^a   Atia, Ali E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b COMSAT Systems Division ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; INFORMATION THEORY--COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT--PERFORMANCE; OPTIMIZATION--COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; WAVEGUIDES--APPLICATIONS;

CHANNEL EXPANSION; COMPUTER AIDED OPTIMIZATION; TOLERANCE ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE MANIFOLD MULTIPLEXERS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0026892114     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.146344     Document Type: Article

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