Abstract
In this paper, we discuss a computationally efficient approach to expedite design optimization of broadband hybrid couplers occupying a minimized substrate area. Structure size reduction is achieved here by decomposing an original coupler circuit into low- and high-impedance components and replacing them with electrically equivalent slow-wave lines with reduced physical dimensions. The main challenge is reliable design of computationally demanding low-impedance slow-wave structures that feature a quasi-periodic circuit topology for wideband operation. Our goal is to determine an adequate number of recurrent unit elements as well as to adjust their designable parameters so that the coupler footprint area is minimal. The proposed method involves using surrogate-based optimization with a reconfigurable co-simulation coarse model as the key component enabling design process acceleration. The latter model is composed in Keysight ADS circuit simulator from multiple EM-evaluated data blocks of the slow-wave unit element and theory-based feeding line models. The embedded optimization algorithm is a trust-region-based gradient search with coarse model Jacobian estimation. We exploit a penalty function approach to ensure that the electrical conditions for the slow-wave lines are accordingly satisfied, apart from explicitly minimizing the area of the coupler. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is demonstrated through a design example of two-section 3-dB branch-line coupler. For the given example, we obtain nine circuit design solutions that correspond to the compact couplers whose multi-element slow-wave lines are composed of unit cells ranging from two to ten.
Recommended Citation
P. Kurgan et al., "Expedite Design of Variable-Topology Broadband Hybrid Couplers for Size Reduction using Surrogate-Based Optimization and Co-Simulation Coarse Models," Procedia Computer Science, vol. 108, pp. 1483 - 1492, Elsevier, Jan 2017.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.071
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
branch-line couplers; co-simulation modeling; compact couplers; electromagnetic simulations; surrogate-based optimization
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1877-0509
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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Publication Date
01 Jan 2017
