This paper presents a tunable bandpass filter based on the varactor-loaded composite rightand left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL). The proposed filter is composed of one CRLH-TL unit cell, which corresponds to the third-order bandpass filter. The tunable bandpass filter is designed using only lumped-elements. The use of lumped elements saves space and lowers the fabrication cost. The size o...

A new systematic approach for designing wideband tunable combline filters is presented. New results on tunable combline filter theory are proposed and explicit design formulas, to obtain the filter design parameters from specifications, are included. These design parameters are: center frequency, resonator electrical length, instantaneous bandwidth and tuning capacitance. The proposed design te...

This paper describes the Q enhancement of inductor or resonance circuit based on the controlled CMOS transonductance, which is applicable to either on-chip inductor or off-chip inductor. The proposed circuit configuration of high Q enhancement is evaluated for the RF transmit filter of a LTE mobile comm’s micro base station, with the Q factor of over 3000 and the capacity of 10W. A tunable filt...

In the last few years, several microwave filter design with band-pass response have been proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) application. Among various microwave filter design, microstrip filter are mostly used by researcher due to their low profile, light weight, easy to fabricate and low cost. Conventional microstrip filter can be in any shape whether circular, rectangular or elliptical but som...

Tunable filters with a wide tunable range that cover the whole C-band , or L-band, or both, have been found wide applications in fiber optical communication system, mainly in three domain: tunable laser, wavelength division multiplexing systems (WDM), and channel monitoring. Due to the growing demand in bit-rate and number of channels in WDM system, tunable narrow band pass filters are required...

Tunable imaging filters have been used for a variety of science programmes on the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telescopes during the last five years. This contribution describes these novel devices and reviews the science (both Galactic and extragalactic) done with them. Possible strategies for implementing a tunable filter at the VLT are also discussed. Significant scientific potentia...

We demonstrate an all-fiber acousto-optic tunable filter based on two-spatial-mode coupling, with improved ruggedness and efficiency, by using a new acoustic-transducer design. We use a rigorous modeling of the flexural acoustic wave to analyze the mode coupling with better accuracy. Using the acousto-optic tunable filter, we demonstrate a novel all-fiber tunable laser with a tuning range of mo...

The trans-admittance-mode (TAM) might act as a transforming bridge for voltage-mode to current-mode conversion. In this study a new low voltage operated electronically tunable TAM biquad filter structure realizing all the seven standard filtering functions namely; low-pass (LP), band-pass (BP), high-pass (HP), regular-notch (RN), low-pass-notch (LPN), high-pass-notch (HPN) and all-pass (AP) fro...

In this paper we present the design and fabrication of an RF MEMS tunable band-pass filter. The band-pass filter design uses both distributed transmission lines and RF MEMS capacitances together to replace the lumped elements. The use of RF MEMS variable capacitances gives the flexibility of tuning both the centre frequency and the band-width of the band-pass filter. A prototype of the tunable ...