A report on Transmission line

Schematic of a wave moving rightward down a lossless two-wire transmission line. Black dots represent electrons, and the arrows show the electric field.

One of the most common types of transmission line, coaxial cable.

Variations on the schematic electronic symbol for a transmission line.

A transmission line is drawn as two black wires. At a distance x into the line, there is current I(x) travelling through each wire, and there is a voltage difference V(x) between the wires. If the current and voltage come from a single wave (with no reflection), then V(x) / I(x) = Z0, where Z0 is the characteristic impedance of the line.

Standing waves on a transmission line with an open-circuit load (top), and a short-circuit load (bottom). Black dots represent electrons, and the arrows show the electric field.

A type of transmission line called a cage line, used for high power, low frequency applications. It functions similarly to a large coaxial cable. This example is the antenna feed line for a longwave radio transmitter in Poland, which operates at a frequency of 225 kHz and a power of 1200 kW.

Specialized cable or other structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves in a contained manner.

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Microwave

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Form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively.

The atmospheric attenuation of microwaves and far infrared radiation in dry air with a precipitable water vapor level of 0.001 mm. The downward spikes in the graph correspond to frequencies at which microwaves are absorbed more strongly. This graph includes a range of frequencies from 0 to 1 THz; the microwaves are the subset in the range between 0.3 and 300 gigahertz.

Waveguide is used to carry microwaves. Example of waveguides and a diplexer in an air traffic control radar

Disassembled radar speed gun. The grey assembly attached to the end of the copper-colored horn antenna is the Gunn diode which generates the microwaves.

A satellite dish on a residence, which receives satellite television over a Ku band 12–14 GHz microwave beam from a direct broadcast communications satellite in a geostationary orbit 35,700 kilometres (22,000 miles) above the Earth

The parabolic antenna (lower curved surface) of an ASR-9 airport surveillance radar which radiates a narrow vertical fan-shaped beam of 2.7–2.9 GHz (S band) microwaves to locate aircraft in the airspace surrounding an airport.

Small microwave oven on a kitchen counter

Microwaves are widely used for heating in industrial processes. A microwave tunnel oven for softening plastic rods prior to extrusion.

Absorption wavemeter for measuring in the Ku band.

1.2 GHz microwave spark transmitter (left) and coherer receiver (right) used by Guglielmo Marconi during his 1895 experiments had a range of 6.5 km

ku band microstrip circuit used in satellite television dish.

Heinrich Hertz's 450 MHz spark transmitter, 1888, consisting of 23 cm dipole and spark gap at focus of parabolic reflector

Jagadish Chandra Bose in 1894 was the first person to produce millimeter waves; his spark oscillator (in box, right) generated 60 GHz (5 mm) waves using 3 mm metal ball resonators.

$Microwave spectroscopy experiment by John Ambrose Fleming in 1897 showing refraction of 1.4 GHz microwaves by paraffin prism, duplicating earlier experiments by Bose and Righi.$

Augusto Righi's 12 GHz spark oscillator and receiver, 1895

Antennas of 1931 experimental 1.7 GHz microwave relay link across the English Channel.

Experimental 700 MHz transmitter 1932 at Westinghouse labs transmits voice over a mile.

Southworth (at left) demonstrating waveguide at IRE meeting in 1938, showing 1.5 GHz microwaves passing through the 7.5 m flexible metal hose registering on a diode detector.

The first modern horn antenna in 1938 with inventor Wilmer L. Barrow

thumb|Randall and Boot's prototype cavity magnetron tube at the University of Birmingham, 1940. In use the tube was installed between the poles of an electromagnet

First commercial klystron tube, by General Electric, 1940, sectioned to show internal construction

British Mk. VIII, the first microwave air intercept radar, in nose of British fighter. Microwave radar, powered by the new magnetron tube, significantly shortened World War II.

Mobile US Army microwave relay station 1945 demonstrating relay systems using frequencies from 100 MHz to 4.9 GHz which could transmit up to 8 phone calls on a beam.

At microwave frequencies, the transmission lines which are used to carry lower frequency radio waves to and from antennas, such as coaxial cable and parallel wire lines, have excessive power losses, so when low attenuation is required microwaves are carried by metal pipes called waveguides.

A stack of "fishbone" and Yagi–Uda television antennas

Antenna (radio)

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Antenna or aerial is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.

Animation of a half-wave dipole antenna radiating radio waves, showing the electric field lines. The antenna in the center is two vertical metal rods connected to a radio transmitter (not shown). The transmitter applies an alternating electric current to the rods, which charges them alternately positive (+) and negative (−). Loops of electric field leave the antenna and travel away at the speed of light; these are the radio waves. In this animation the action is shown slowed down enormously.

Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.

An automobile's whip antenna, a common example of an omnidirectional antenna.

Diagram of the electric fields ( blue ) and magnetic fields ( red ) radiated by a dipole antenna ( black rods) during transmission.

Standing waves on a half wave dipole driven at its resonant frequency. The waves are shown graphically by bars of color ( red for voltage, V and blue for current, I ) whose width is proportional to the amplitude of the quantity at that point on the antenna.

Typical center-loaded mobile CB antenna with loading coil

Polar plots of the horizontal cross sections of a (virtual) Yagi-Uda-antenna. Outline connects points with 3 dB field power compared to an ISO emitter.

The wave reflected by earth can be considered as emitted by the image antenna.

The currents in an antenna appear as an image in opposite phase when reflected at grazing angles. This causes a phase reversal for waves emitted by a horizontally polarized antenna (center) but not for a vertically polarized antenna (left).

An antenna lead-in is the transmission line, or feed line, which connects the antenna to a transmitter or receiver.

Coaxial cable

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Schematic representation of the elementary components of a transmission line

Schematic representation of a coaxial transmission line, showing the characteristic impedance Z_0

Semi-rigid coax installed in an Agilent N9344C 20GHz spectrum analyser

Early coaxial antenna feedline of 50 kW radio station WNBC, New York, 1930s

AT&T coaxial cable trunkline installed between East Coast and Midwest in 1948. Each of the 8 coaxial subcables could carry 480 telephone calls or one television channel.

Coaxial cable is a type of transmission line, used to carry high-frequency electrical signals with low losses.

Microstrip

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Microstrip is a type of electrical transmission line which can be fabricated with any technology where a conductor is separated from a ground plane by a dielectric layer known as the substrate.

Planar transmission line

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An RF power amplifier incorporating planar circuit structures. The amplifier on the left feeds its output into a set of planar transmission line filters in the centre. The third circuit block on the right is a circulator to protect the amplifier from accidental reflections of the power back from the antenna

Field patterns for selected modes: A, quasi-TEM in microstrip, B, quasi-TEM in CPW (even mode), C, slotline mode in CPW (odd mode)

Stripline variants: A, standard, B, suspended, C, bilateral suspended, D, two conductor

Microstrip variants: A, standard, B, suspended, C, inverted, D, in box, E, trapped inverted

CPW variants: A, standard, B, CBCPW, C, coplanar strips, D, embedded coplanar strips

Slotline variants: A, standard, B, antipodal, C, bilateral

Finline variants: A, standard (unilateral), B, bilateral, C, antipodal, D, strongly coupled antipodal E, insulated

Imageline variants: A, standard, B, insular, C, trapped; other dielectric lines: D, ribline, E, strip dielectric guide, F, inverted strip dielectric guide

Transitions: A, microstrip to SIW, B, CPW to SIW, C, microstrip to CPW, the dotted line marks the boundary of the microstrip groundplane, D, CPW to slotline

Planar transmission lines are transmission lines with conductors, or in some cases dielectric (insulating) strips, that are flat, ribbon-shaped lines.

Transmitter

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Electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna.

A radio transmitter is usually part of a radio communication system which uses electromagnetic waves (radio waves) to transport information (in this case sound) over a distance.

Animation of a half-wave dipole antenna transmitting radio waves, showing the electric field lines. The antenna in the center is two vertical metal rods, with an alternating current applied at its center from a radio transmitter (not shown). The voltage charges the two sides of the antenna alternately positive (+) and negative (−) . Loops of electric field (black lines) leave the antenna and travel away at the speed of light; these are the radio waves. This animation shows the action slowed enormously

Hertz discovering radio waves in 1887 with his first primitive radio transmitter (background).

Guglielmo Marconi's spark gap transmitter, with which he performed the first experiments in practical Morse code radiotelegraphy communication in 1895-1897

High power spark gap radiotelegraphy transmitter in Australia around 1910.

1 MW US Navy Poulsen arc transmitter which generated continuous waves using an electric arc in a magnetic field, a technology used for a brief period from 1903 until vacuum tubes took over in the 20s

An Alexanderson alternator, a huge rotating machine used as a radio transmitter at very low frequency from about 1910 until World War 2

One of the first vacuum tube AM radio transmitters, built by Lee De Forest in 1914. The early Audion (triode) tube is visible at right.

One of the BBC's first broadcast transmitters, early 1920s, London. The 4 triode tubes, connected in parallel to form an oscillator, each produced around 4 kilowatts with 12 thousand volts on their anodes.

Armstrong's first experimental FM broadcast transmitter W2XDG, in the Empire State Building, New York City, used for secret tests 1934–1935. It transmitted on 41 MHz at a power of 2 kW.

Transmitter assembly of a 20 kW, 9.375 GHz air traffic control radar, 1947. The magnetron tube mounted between two magnets (right) produces microwaves which pass from the aperture (left) into a waveguide which conducts them to the dish antenna.

In more powerful transmitters, the antenna may be located on top of a building or on a separate tower, and connected to the transmitter by a feed line, that is a transmission line.

Feed line

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Complicated waveguide feed of a military radar

In a radio antenna, the feed line (feedline), or feeder, is the cable or other transmission line that connects the antenna with the radio transmitter or receiver.

Figure 2. A parallel-coupled lines filter in microstrip construction

Distributed-element filter

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Electronic filter in which capacitance, inductance, and resistance are not localised in discrete capacitors, inductors, and resistors as they are in conventional filters.

A microstrip low pass filter implemented with bowtie stubs inside a 20 GHz Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser

Figure 5. Stepped-impedance low-pass filter formed from alternate high and low impedance sections of line

Figure 6. Another form of stepped-impedance low-pass filter incorporating shunt resonators

Figure 8. Capacitive gap stripline filter

Figure 9. Stripline parallel-coupled lines filter. This filter is commonly printed at an angle as shown to minimize the board space taken up, although this is not an essential feature of the design. It is also common for the end element or the overlapping halves of the two end elements to be a narrower width for matching purposes (not shown in this diagram, see Figure 1).

A microstrip hairpin filter followed by a low pass stub filter on a PCB in a 20GHz Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser

A microstrip hairpin PCB filter implemented in an Agilent N9344C spectrum analyser

Figure 11. Stripline interdigital filter

Three Interdigital Coupled Line filters from a spectrum analyser PCB

Figure 12. Stripline stub filter composed of λ/4 short-circuit stubs

The distributed-element model applies at all frequencies, and is used in transmission-line theory; many distributed-element components are made of short lengths of transmission line.

Telegrapher's equations

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Schematic showing a wave flowing rightward down a lossless transmission line. Black dots represent electrons, and the arrows show the electric field.

In the presence of losses the solution of the telegrapher's equation has both damping and dispersion, as visible when compared with the solution of a lossless wave equation.

Changes of the signal level distribution along the single dimensional transmission medium. Depending on the parameters of the telegraph equation, this equation can reproduce all four patterns.

The telegrapher's equations (or just telegraph equations) are a pair of coupled, linear partial differential equations that describe the voltage and current on an electrical transmission line with distance and time.