NOVEL MICROWAVE FILTER DESIGN TECHNIQUES.

Abstract

A magnetically tunable directional filter was designed and constructed, and its performance was evaluated against theory. The filter used two YIG resonators mounted in a rectangular waveguide structure, which was designed to operate over the 8.0 to 11.5-Gc tuning range. The 3-db bandwidth of the band-pass response of the device was approximately 17 Mc, and the minimum loss in the pass band ranged from 1.2 to 1.65 db. The offresonance isolation of the band-pass response was in excess of 50 db. The band-pass response of the filter showed very little evidence of any spurious responses due to magnetostatic modes, although the transmission through the ports that gave a band-stop-type of response showed a number of prominent spurious responses. This filter has properties similar to those of a conventional cavity-type directional filter, but also some additional properties which are due to the non-reciprocal nature of the YIG ferrimagnetic resonators. The measured performance of the device was in satisfactory agreement with the theory. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0436577

Entities

People

  • E. G. Cristal
  • G. L. Matthaei

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Bandwidth
  • Directional
  • Filters
  • Microwave Filters
  • Microwaves
  • Resonators
  • Waveguides

Readers

  • Microwave Engineering.