Compact, high-Q, zero temperature coefficient, TE/sub 011/ sapphire-rutile microwave distributed Bragg reflector resonators

Some novel new resonator designs based on the distributed Bragg reflector are presented. The resonators implement a TE/sub 011/ resonance in a cylindrical sapphire dielectric, which is confined by the addition of rutile and sapphire dielectric reflectors at the end faces. Finite element calculations are utilized to optimize the dimensions to obtain the highest Q-factors and zero frequency-temperature coefficient for a resonator operating near 0/spl deg/C. We show that a Q-factor of 70,000 and 65,000 can be achieved with and without the condition of zero frequency-temperature coefficients, respectively.