Reconfigurable Wilkinson power dividers with minimum number of switches

Novel reconfigurable Wilkinson power dividers with a minimum number of switches are introduced. In the first design, re-routing of output power between one and two ports is achieved with only three switches. A second design employs a switched coupled line transformer, and requires four switches. Both operating modes of the power dividers are matched and achieve a relative bandwidth of approximately 10%. The construction of the dividers and experimental results are presented at 2.14 GHz.