본 논문에서는 링 공진특성을 이용하여 사이드밴드 억압비가 향상된 링 공진기형 필터를 제안하고 구현하였다. 이 링 공진 특성은 직선 전송선로와 링 전송선로의 일부 결합효과로 인하여 발생되며, 이 결합효과는 신호의 전달특성에 중요한 영향을 미친다. 또한, 링의 반지름을 조절하여 가변적으로 채널 선택이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 링 여파기 하단에 링 전송선로를 추가함으로써 대역통과 특성이 조절되는 링 공진 여파기를 구현할 수 있었다. 필터 소자측정 결과, 중심주파수가 약 4 GHz에서 추가 삽입손실 없이 대역폭을 조절할 수 있었다. 출력된 대역통과 특성의 양쪽 사이드밴드에 나타난 미세한 잡음을 추가된 링을 통해 제거시킴으로써, 신호의 진폭억압비를 향상시킬 수 있었고, 필터 시스템의 성능을 결정하는 Qe는 82였으며, 기존 필터보다 105% 향상시킬 수 있었다.
A ring resonator based band-pass filter enabling enhanced sideband suppression was proposed and demonstrated. It is composed of a single-ring based band-pass section combined with a band-rejection section based on two different coupled rings. The sideband region of the transfer characteristics of the first band-pass filter section was selectively suppressed by means of the band-rejection section without causing any excessive insertion loss. As a result, the overall transfer characteristics of the proposed filter was unproved so that its sideband suppression was elevated to allow for sharper roll-off and narrower bandwidth. In this work, a conventional single-ring band-pass filter and a proposed filter including the band-rejection section were designed and fabricated. As for the achieved device performance, with the center frequency at about 4 GHz, the sideband suppression ratio was increased as much as 8 dB and the 3-dB bandwidth was reduced from 98 MHz to 48 MHz by about 51% with no remarkable excessive insertion loss as expected. And the quality factor of the device was increased by about 105%.
