Microwave Filters for Communication Systems

Fundamentals, Design, and Applications

Richard J. Cameron, Chandra M. Kudsia, Raafat R. Mansour

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781118274347
• eBook ISBN: 9781119292388
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Microwaves
• Index: Technology & Engineering

An in-depth look at the state-of-the-art in microwave filter design, implementation, and optimization

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this second edition of the popular reference addresses the many important advances that have taken place in the field since the publication of the first edition and includes new chapters on Multiband Filters, Tunable Filters and a chapter devoted to Practical Considerations and Examples.

One of the chief constraints in the evolution of wireless communication systems is the scarcity of the available frequency spectrum, thus making frequency spectrum a primary resource to be judiciously shared and optimally utilized. This fundamental limitation, along with atmospheric conditions and interference have long been drivers of intense research and development in the fields of signal processing and filter networks, the two technologies that govern the information capacity of a given frequency spectrum. Written by distinguished experts with a combined century of industrial and academic experience in the field, Microwave Filters for Communication Systems:

• Provides a coherent, accessible description of system requirements and constraints for microwave filters
• Covers fundamental considerations in the theory and design of microwave filters and the use of EM techniques to analyze and optimize filter structures
• Chapters on Multiband Filters and Tunable Filters address the new markets emerging for wireless communication systems and flexible satellite payloads and
• A chapter devoted to real-world examples and exercises that allow readers to test and fine-tune their grasp of the material covered in various chapters, in effect it provides the roadmap to develop a software laboratory, to analyze, design, and perform system level tradeoffs including EM based tolerance and sensitivity analysis for microwave filters and multiplexers for practical applications.

Microwave Filters for Communication Systems provides students and practitioners alike with a solid grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of practical microwave filter and its physical realization using state-of-the-art EM-based techniques.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Radio Frequency (RF) Filter Networks for Wireless Communications—The System Perspective
• Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Circuit Theory Approximation
• Chapter 3: Characterization of Lossless Lowpass Prototype Filter Functions
• Chapter 4: Computer-Aided Synthesis of Characteristic Polynomials
• Chapter 5: Analysis of Multiport Microwave Networks
• Chapter 6: Synthesis of a General Class of the Chebyshev Filter Function
• Chapter 7: Synthesis of Network-Circuit Approach
• Chapter 8: Synthesis of Networks: Direct Coupling Matrix Synthesis Methods
• Chapter 9: Reconfiguration of the Folded Coupling Matrix
• Chapter 10: Synthesis and Application of Extracted Pole and Trisection Elements
• Chapter 11: Microwave Resonators
• Chapter 12: Waveguide and Coaxial Lowpass Filters
• Chapter 13: Waveguide Realization of Single- and Dual-Mode Resonator Filters
• Chapter 14: Design and Physical Realization of Coupled Resonator Filters
• Chapter 15: Advanced EM-Based Design Techniques for Microwave Filters
• Chapter 16: Dielectric Resonator Filters
• Chapter 17: Allpass Phase and Group Delay Equalizer Networks
• Chapter 18: Multiplexer Theory and Design
• Chapter 19: Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Tuning of Microwave Filters
• Chapter 20: High-Power Considerations in Microwave Filter Networks: (Revised and augmented by Chandra M. Kudsia, Vicente E. Boria, and Santiago Cogollos)
• Chapter 21: Multiband Filters
• Chapter 22: Tunable Filters
• Chapter 23: Practical Considerations and Design Examples
• Appendix A: Physical Constants
• Appendix B: Conductivities of Metals
• Appendix C: Dielectric Constants and Loss Tangents of Some Materials
• Appendix D: Rectangular Waveguide Designation
• Appendix E: Impedance and Admittance Inverters
• Index
• End User License Agreement