Two-Way Waveguide Diplexer and Its Application to Diplexing In-Band Full-Duplex Antenna

A design of a diplexing in-band full-duplex (IBFD) slot antenna based on the quadruple-mode resonator (QMR) is presented for the first time. First, a two-way waveguide diplexer integration using QMR is designed. Four waveguide modes, namely, TE011, TE101, TM210, and TM120, are primarily used. These four modes are modal orthogonal to each other in a single QMR. Each of the quadruple modes can be independently manipulated with low mutual interference with other modes. Taking advantage of this characteristic, a two-way waveguide diplexer integration can be implemented with four independent frequency channels. In each diplexer, the downlink channel is dominated by fundamental mode TE011/TE101, while the uplink channel is dominated by high-order mode TM210/TM120. By cascading QMRs, higher order frequency responses are achieved with expected coupling coefficient (
$K$
) and external quality factor (
$Q_{{\text {e}}}$
). Based on the proposed two-way diplexer concept, a diplexing IBFD antenna with a turnstile junction is designed by replacing the inputs with a cross-coupled radiating slot. It integrates the filtering, diplexing, orthomode transducing, and radiating functions into a single element. Four channels can work independently to transmit/receive two orthogonal signals. The two-way waveguide diplexer and diplexing IBFD waveguide antenna with a second-order response were implemented and tested for the proof-of-concept.