A microwave resonator comprising a hollow tube comprising an electrically conductive tube wall which defines a tube bore, the tube extending along a length axis from a first end to a second end; a first electrically conductive closing plate closing the first end of the tube, the first electrically conductive closing plate comprising at least one coupling slot extending therethrough; a second electrically conducting closing plate closing the second end of the tube, the second electrically conductive closing plate comprising at least one coupling slot extending therethrough; a plurality of dielectric resonant pucks, each puck comprising first and second end faces and a side wall extending therebetween, each puck being dimensioned such that when in the tube its dominant mode is a doubly degenerate mode; the pucks being arranged within the tube bore spaced apart from each other and the closing plates, each puck being arranged centered on the length axis and its side wall abutting the tube wall such that there is no air gap between the puck and the tube wall which extends from one end face to the other of the puck, the puck adjacent to the first closing plate being termed the input puck; each puck being separated from the adjacent puck in the tube bore by a coupling gap, each coupling gap having an electrically conductive iris plate arranged therein, each iris plate being arranged normal to the length axis, each iris plate comprising at feast one coupling slot extending therethrough; a single mode input microwave resonator adapted to provide a microwave signal to the input puck; each puck comprising a symmetry breaking structure for modifying the frequency of one of the degenerate modes relative to the other and the coupling between the two modes; each puck further comprising a central aperture extending from one end face to the other along the length axis; and, each central aperture comprising at least one electrically conductive insert arranged therein.

There is disclosed in one example an electromagnetic wave launcher apparatus, including: an interface to an electromagnetic waveguide; a first launcher configured to launch a high-frequency electromagnetic signal onto a first cross-sectional portion of the waveguide; and a second launcher configured to launch a lower-frequency electromagnetic signal onto a second cross-sectional portion of the waveguide.

Systems and methods for dielectric TM.sub.01 mode resonators are described herein. In certain embodiments, a system includes one or more electronic devices, wherein an electronic device a first input signal and provides an output signal. Further, the electronic device includes a conductive body enclosing a cavity, wherein the cavity has an interior surface. Additionally, the electronic device includes one or more dielectric resonators, wherein a dielectric resonator in the one or more dielectric resonators comprises two or more portions that are shaped differently than one another and has an axial center cavity formed therein. Moreover, the electronic device includes one or more tuning elements inserted through an external surface of the conductive body, the one or more tuning elements extending through the external surface into the axial center cavity, wherein a distance that the one or more tuning elements extend into the axial center cavity is adjustable.

Provided is a low-leakage automatic adjustable diplexer including a body, a thin plate and two resonant regulators. The body has therein cuboid waveguide channels each having a feeding portion, a reception port portion, a transmission port portion, a fitting portion, a first filtering portion, a second filtering portion, first E/H conversion units connected to two ends of the first filtering portion, respectively, and second E/H conversion units connected to two ends of the second filtering portion, respectively. The thin plate is clamped inside the body. The resonant regulators each have a plurality of frequency disturbance elements adjustably protruding into the first and second filtering portions. Given the E/H conversion units and the frequency disturbance elements penetratingly disposed on the H-side sidewall of the cuboid waveguide cavity, it is unnecessary for the cuboid waveguide channels to undergo any processing process for forming therein any protrusion-style insulation walls, thereby attaining low leakage.

A tunable diplexer arrangement (100) comprising a first filter arrangement (110) and a second filter arrangement (120) connected to respective first (115) and second (125) filter ports of a junction (130), the junction comprising a common port (140), wherein at least the first filter arrangement (110) is a tunable filter comprising a first tuning element (111), wherein the junction (130) comprises a first junction tuning element (112) corresponding to the first tuning element (111) and arranged in connection to the second filter port (125), thereby enabling a tunable matching of the junction (130) with respect to a first frequency characteristic of the first filter arrangement (110).

A radio unit for unsynchronized Time Division Duplex (TDD) multi-band operation in a wireless communication system. The radio unit comprises a first resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a first frequency band. A first terminal of the first resonator arrangement is coupled to an antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a second resonator arrangement comprising one or more resonators tuned for operating at a second frequency band. A first terminal of the second resonator arrangement is coupled to the antenna element. The radio unit further comprises a tunable resonator arrangement comprising at least four tunable resonators. The at least four tunable resonators in the tunable resonator arrangement are tuned according to different operating modes.

In examples, systems and methods for waveguide antenna arrays with integrated filters are described. An example waveguide antenna array element a waveguide section has a first end and second end. The waveguide section is configured to propagate electromagnetic energy. The waveguide antenna array element also includes a feed configured to launch an electromagnetic wave into the first end of the waveguide section. The waveguide antenna array element also includes a waveguide filter having at least one waveguide cavity coupled to the second end of the waveguide section. The waveguide filter is configured to pass a first set of electromagnetic frequencies and reject a second set of electromagnetic frequencies. Yet further, the waveguide antenna array element includes an antenna coupled to the waveguide filter configured to radiate a portion of the electromagnetic energy passed by the waveguide filter.

The present invention provides filter assemblies, tuning elements and a method of tuning a filter. A filter assembly includes a housing having a top cover, a bottom cover and at least one sidewall, the top cover, the bottom cover and the at least one sidewall defining an internal cavity, the housing configured to receive first through third radio frequency (RF) transmission lines; a top metal sheet mounted within the internal cavity that has a plurality of openings that form a first hole pattern; and a bottom metal sheet mounted within the internal cavity that has a plurality of openings that form a second hole pattern. The top and bottom metal sheets are vertically spaced-apart from each other in a vertically stacked relationship within the internal cavity. The top metal sheet and the bottom metal sheet each include at least one resonator.

A combined isolator-diplexer device for supplying radiofrequency (RF) energy and microwave energy obtained from separate sources to a probe via a common signal pathway. The invention combines into a single unit all the necessary components to isolate a microwave channel from an RF channel whilst providing a high withstanding voltage (e.g. greater than 10 kV). The device comprises a waveguide isolator for isolating the microwave channel having a pair of DC isolation barriers arranged therein to provide a pair of series-connected capacitive structures between a ground conductor at an output of the combining circuit and a conductive input section of the waveguide isolator.

Provided is a diplexer that is smaller and more lightweight than conventional diplexers. A diplexer includes a filter pair, first and second directional coupler sections, and first and second converter section pairs. These members are constituted by waveguides. The waveguides are post-wall waveguides that have a first wide wall, a second wide wall, and narrow walls. The first wide wall and the second wide wall are a pair of conductor plates provided on the opposite sides of a dielectric substrate. Each of the narrow walls is a post wall constituted by conductor posts passing through the dielectric substrate.