Ridge Waveguide Elliptic Filters in Narrow-Wall Canonical Configuration

摘要

A new canonical ridge waveguide structure is proposed to design elliptic filter responses. The non-adjacent cavities are coupled by windows situated at the common narrow-wall of the ridge waveguide enclosures. This new configuration provides positive and negative cross couplings using evanescent rectangular waveguides and metallic strips, respectively. The full-wave analysis of the structure is carried out by a rigorous mode matching method. The design is based on circuit synthesis and full-wave optimization. Finally, the proposed structure is elucidated with the design of a four-pole filter and it is validated with the commercial HFSS software.