WIDE BAND ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE FILTERS.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to conduct research and development to advance the state-of-theart in the field of wide band electronically tunable filters employing magnetically tunable resonators such as Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG). The work is to culminate in the development of a series of bandpass filters covering the frequency range 1-18 Gc, a series of band-reject filters covering the frequency range 1-12 Gc, a multiple band-reject filter with four independently tunable reject bands in the frequency range 2-4 Gc, and a power supply capable of sweeping any of the filters through its entire tuning band, linearly, at a rate which can be varied continuously from 0 (manual sweep) to 1000 cps. The frequency range covered by the bandpass filters will be divided as follows: 1-2, 2-4, 4-8, 8-12 and 12-18 Gc, with 18-30 Mc bandwidth in the passband. The frequency range covered by the band-reject filters will be divided as follows: 1-2, 2-4, 4-8, 8-12 Gc with a 50 db rejection bandwidth of greater than 3 Mc and a 3 db bandwidth of less than 30 Mc. All the filters are to be nonreciprocal (greater than 20db), temperature compensated, magnetically shielded, and ruggedized. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0426111

Entities

People

  • A. W. Shaw

Organizations

  • Watkins-Johnson Company

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandpass Filters
  • Bandwidth
  • Coverings
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Garnet
  • Power Supplies
  • Rejection
  • Resonators
  • Yttrium
  • Yttrium Iron Garnet

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics