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What are the types of transmission lines?

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Question added by ZUBAIR AHMED , graduate engineer trainee , QESCO
Date Posted: 2017/01/06
Samy Nashabe
by Samy Nashabe , Web Patroller Analyst , Caveon LLC

 

Types of Transmission Lines

(a)    Two wire transmission line:- This transmission line consists of a pair of parallel conducting wires separated by a uniform distance .These are used in power systems or telephones lines.

(b)   Coaxial transmission line:- This consists of an inner and a coaxial outer conducting sheath separated by a dielectric medium . They are used as TV cables, telephones cables and power cables.

(c)    Parallel plate transmission line or planar line:- It has two parallel conducting plates separated by a dielectric slab of uniform thickness

(d)   Optical fibres transmission line:- It consists of core and cladding . Information passes through the core in the form of totally internal reflected TEM waves.

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