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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2002
Antonije R. Djordjevic, Belgrade, YU;
Aleksandra Stekovic, Belgrade, YU;
Marcel F. C. Schemmann, Maria-Hoop, NL;
Zoran Maricevic, Manlius, NY (US);
Teradvance Communications, LLC, Fayetteville, NY (US);
Abstract
A transmission line filter having low reflectivity and Gaussian characteristics includes at least one inductive element aligned along the transmission line and at least one shunt configuration branching off the transmission line including a capacitive element and a resistive element. The transmission line filter is embodied in complete and incomplete Gaussian filters, and in both lumped element and distributed-element configurations. A method of designing a transmission line filter having low reflectivity and Gaussian characteristics is provided in which values for desired filter parameters are ascertained, formulas for the values of the inductive, capacitive and resistive elements are derived in terms of the desired filter parameters and the number of half-cells, a number of half-cells for the filter required to achieve the desired filter parameters is selected, and lumped element values for the inductive, capacitive, and resistive elements are estimated using the selected number of half-cells.