Mirroring Physical Reality: Nonconventional Microwave Filter Synthesis

In essence, all microwave devices are designed to operate exclusively in their specified frequency ranges; thus, the humorous statement that “all the world is a filter”
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. This may sound funny, but it reveals the importance of microwave filters, which are employed to pass signals in the desired frequency bands while attenuating needless out-of-band interference and noise.