Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
Volume 62, Issue 8, Pages 1663-1670Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2332298
Keywords
Bandpass filters; coupling resonators; impedance inverters; reconfigurable filters; waveguide filters
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- Space Agency of the German Center for Aeronautics and Space e.V.
- Ministery of Economy and Technology [50YB1107]
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This paper presents a center frequency and bandwidth reconfiguration mechanism for waveguide microwave bandpass filters. The filters are designed to be used in the output section of a satellite communication system. While the center frequency of a bandpass filter can be tuned by changing the lengths of the filter resonators, the coupling irises as practical realizations of the impedance inverters cannot easily be adapted to a new value. The novel approach chosen in this paper is to replace the impedance inverters by a novel type of coupling structure. This coupling structure allows adjustment of the coupling by changing the length of a transmission line, which is equivalent to changing the resonant frequency of a coupling resonator. Design equations are presented to transform an impedance inverter into the proposed coupling structure. A synthesis procedure for bandwidth reconfigurable filters is proposed. The feasibility of coupling adaptation is proven based on a full-wave model of the coupling structure. The synthesis process is applied to a four-pole Chebyshev sidewall-coupled circular waveguide filter with 54- and 72-MHz bandwidth settings. The filter is built up and measured. The measured results prove that the filter can be tuned to both bandwidths over a center frequency range of 200 MHz with excellent return loss and insertion loss.
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