Microwave filter cavity with spurious mode suppression
OwnerStephen Berry, Slawomir J. Fiedziuszkoinventors
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Abstract
A microwave filter cavity that exhibits spurious mode suppression. The microwave filter comprises a metal mode suppression tuning stub located in a replaceable iris plate that is used to suppress unwanted transverse magnetic (TM) modes of the filter cavity, The mode suppression stub is disposed normal to an end wall of the cavity. The mode suppression stub perturbs the E-field of transverse magnetic modes, while having negligible effect on desired transverse electric (TE) modes. The addition of the tuning stub has no effect on filter performance determined by transverse electric modes.
Claims15
A microwave filter cavity comprising:
- a housing having first and second end walls:
- a port disposed in each of the endwalls;
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- a mode suppression stub is disposed through one of the end walls that is disposed normal to the end wall,
A microwave filter cavity comprising:
- a housing having first and second end walls;
- a port disposed in each of the endwalls;
- an iris plate disposed in the cavity between the first and second end walls;
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- a mode suppression stub is disposed through iris plate and normal to the iris plate,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.