Design of Linear Phase Selective Comb-Line Filter

A multiwire approach has been used to develop design equations for linear phase selective comb-line filter. The filter under consideration consists of two rows of inductive resonators separated by a slotted coupling surface. Through the development process a multipath prototype network has been considered. A frequency transformation has been formulated to relate the multipath prototype network and the multiwire comb-line structure. Hence, once the element-values of the prototype network are chosen to meet prescribed requirements, the corresponding comb-line filter element values can be computed through the developed explicit formulas. To illustrate the design procedure a brief design example is presented.