Microwave Filters, Couplers, and Matching Networks

AUTHOR: Robert J. Wenzel (instructor)
FORMAT: 6 two-hour CD-ROMs
LIST PRICE: $1,195.00
PUBLISHED: 2003 (first published 1986)

Recorded originally in 1986 and now available on CD-ROM for the first time, this course contains approximately 12-hours of instruction on the fundamentals of microwave filters, couplers and matching networks. Included is a thorough review of the common types of filter responses and calculations, filter realization, and various methods of filter design, including bandpass, network theory and Kuroda. Subsequent sessions cover the fundamentals of directional couplers. A final session describes distributed element matching networks and a matching network design example.

Table of Contents

Section I: Common Types of Filter Response and Some Basic Filter Calculations

1. Maximally Flat Filters
2. Chebyshev Filters
3. Elliptic Function Filters
4. Bassel, Equal Ripple Phase, Gaussian
5. Selectivity and Element Value Tables
6. Estimating Dissipation Loss and Time Delay Variation

Section II: Realization of Practical Filters

1. Introduction
2. Lumped and Coaxial Line Elements
3. Even and Odd Modes
4. Realization in Microstrip

Section III: Filter Design

1 Design of Bandpass Filters Using Coupling Coefficients and Qex
2. Typical Bandpass Filter Design from Lowpass Prototype Using Approximate
Design Approach
3. The Modern Network Theory Approach to Microwave Filter Design
4. Kuroda Identities and Filter Realization Examples
5. CAD of Microstrip Bandpass Filter

Section IV: Summary of Microwave Filters

Section V: Fundamentals of Directional Couplers

1. Introduction and General Theory
2. Microstrip Couplers
3. A Useful Hybrid Circuit

Section VI: Summary of TEM Directional Couplers

Section VII: Distributed Element Matching Networks Using Commensurate
Linelength Elements

1. Introduction
2. The Approximation Problem for Distributed Matching Networks
3. Matching Network Design Example