A widely tunable bandpass filter adopting novel fully tunable resonators

摘要： A widely tunable bandpass filter adopting a novel fully tunable resonator is proposed in this letter. The fully tunable resonator is mainly consisted of an open ring, a frequency tuning structure, and a coupling tuning structure. Adopting the fully resonators, the center frequency, the input/output external Q value, and the coupling coefficients can be tuned at the same time. And the tuning range of a tunable filter adopting the novel fully tunable resonators can be expanded. The fully tunable resonators can be combined to achieve more excellent suppression performance. A widely tunable bandpass filter consisted of five fully tunable resonators with 86.5% frequency tuning range is designed, fabricated, and measured. The simulated results are in good agreement with the measured ones.