摘要
A high performance Balun BandPass Filter (BPF) with capacitively loaded multiple coupled lines with very simple structure is proposed in this paper, this structure realizes simultaneous size reduction and superior harmonic response suppression performance in bandpass filtering meanwhile good differential performance of the Balun. The theory of this structure for unbalanced input into balanced output has been studied in this paper and a proper Balun and BPF characteristic by the symmetric feeding and skew symmetric feeding have been obtained to prove the theory. The enter frequency of the fabricated Balun-BPF is operated at 2.45 GHz with 6.93% Fractional Band Width (FBW), and this frequency is used for Bluetooth and some other communication systems. The differences between the two outputs are 180°± 1.92° in phase and within 0.33 dB in magnitude. At f0, the amplitude imbalance and phase difference are within 0.25 dB and 180.86°, respectively. The measured frequency responses agree well with the simulated ones. With the theoretical analyses and practical results, it is shown that the proposed one has the advantages of simple structure, convenient analysis and good performance of both BPF and Balun.
A high performance Balun BandPass Filter （BPF） with capacitively loaded multiple coupled lines with very simple structure is proposed in this paper, this structure realizes simultaneous size reduction and superior harmonic response suppression performance in bandpass filtering meanwhile good differential performance of the Balun. The theory of this structure for unbalanced input into balanced output has been studied in this paper and a proper Balun and BPF characteristic by the symmetric feeding and skew symmetric feeding have been obtained to prove the theory. The enter frequency of the fabricated Balun-BPF is operated at 2.45 GHz with 6.93% Fractional Band Width （FBW）, and this frequency is used for Bluetooth and some other communication systems. The differences between the two outputs are 180° ±1.92° in phase and within 0.33 dB in magnitude. At f0, the amplitude imbalance and phase difference are within 0.25 dB and 180.86°, respectively. The measured frequency responses agree well with the simulated ones. With the theoretical analyses and practical results, it is shown that the proposed one has the advantages of simple structure, convenient analysis and good performance of both BPF and Balun.
