Circulator
Electronic circuit in which a signal entering any port exits at the next port / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about radio frequency (RF) or microwave frequency passive circulators. For other uses, see Circulator (disambiguation).
In electrical engineering, a circulator is a passive, non-reciprocal three- or four-port device that only allows a microwave or radio-frequency (RF) signal to exit through the port directly after the one it entered. Optical circulators have similar behavior. Ports are where an external waveguide or transmission line, such as a microstrip line or a coaxial cable, connects to the device. For a three-port circulator, a signal applied to port 1 only comes out of port 2; a signal applied to port 2 only comes out of port 3; a signal applied to port 3 only comes out of port 1. An ideal three-port circulator thus has the following scattering matrix: