Simple Millimeter Wave Dielectric Disc Filter with Very Flat Passband Characteristic

A particular fitter design suitable for millimeter- and submillimeter-waves is presented. By mounting equally spaced dielectric discs of identical thickness inside an overmoded circular waveguide very flat bandpass-filters with a relative bandwidth of about ±6% can be achieved. Normalized to the guided wavelength the air spacing corresponds to 1/4, 3/4, ... whereas the thickness of the dielectric disc is an integer multiple of 1/2. This particular design is possible for an odd number of discs only. A design example shows 19 GHz bandwidth at 150 GHz. A typical application is side-band filtering for radiometers at plasma experiments.