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Mismatched ladder filters |
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The
features of oscillation pattern in mismatched finite electric ladder filters Sergey B. Karavashkin and Olga N. Karavashkina Special Laboratory for Fundamental Elaboration SELF 187 apt., 38 bldg., Prospect Gagarina, Kharkov 61140, Ukraine Phone: +38 (057) 7370624 E-mail: selftrans@yandex.ru , selflab@mail.ruBasing
on the original relationship of the Dynamical ElectroMechanical Analogy DEMA and original
exact analytical solutions for a lumped mechanical elastic line as an analogue, it is
studied, how the load resistance effects on the amplitude-frequency and phase-frequency
characteristics of mismatched finite ladder filters. It is shown that in filters of such
type the indicated characteristics have a brightly expressed resonance form and
essentially transform in the lower and medial domains of the pass band, changing
insufficiently in the vicinity of cutoff frequency. It disables the conventional method to
determine the total phase delay and the ladder filter transmission coefficient and
requires finding the exact analytical solutions by way of presented method. The obtained
calculated regularities well agree with the experimental results for similar-parameters
ladder filters. The obtained results can be extended to essentially more complicated
ladder-filter circuits. Keywords:
Electric ladder filters; electromechanical analogy; elastic lumped lines; ODE Classification
by MSC 2000: 30E25; 93A30; 93C05; 94C05 Classification
by PASC 2001: 02.60.Li; 84.30.Vn; 84.40.Az 1. Introduction The
basic calculation method for electric ladder filters is the two-port method and those
developed on its basis. It is accepted that one of the
two-port method advantages is that the complicated circuit can be reduced to a few
two-ports connections. The coefficients of each are easy expressed through the element
parameters of the related sections of the circuit. And a few two-ports connection in its
turn can be presented as some resulting two-port. The finding of the coefficient matrix is
reduced mostly to summing and multiplying the matrixes of the separate two-ports into
which the considered circuit is factored [1, p. 53]. With the obviously simple and effective
approach, this method has essential restrictions when applied. Specifically, when
calculating ladder filters, it is supposed that the input and output of their sections are
matched, as usually one seeks to insert the separate sections
of the laddered circuit matched [2,
p. 269]. The more, the inserted sections must be matched
always, as only at this condition one can sum the characteristic constants of the
transmission [3, p. 120]. Just because
of it if the circuit was set up of T-sections, it must begin and finish with the
impedance 1/2,
and if of pi-sections with the parallel impedance 22 [4, p. 603]. "Considering
the filter circuits, one supposes that the filter input and output are matched with the
source of e.m.f. and with the load, i.e., that each section of the filter and the circuit
on the whole are loaded on the impedance equal to that characteristic. In the reality this
condition is not satisfied, as the characteristic impedance of the filter depends on
frequency; it has a real value at the transparency band and is reactive at the stop band
[4, p. 623]. Furthermore, unfortunately, the characteristic
impedances of sections are expressed by the functions physically unrealisable, and by this
reason one can proceed the matched connection in real circuits only approximately
[3, p. 120]. This
misfit of the two-port method approach to the real processes in ladder filters is caused
by the fact that under the mismatched load the influence of the wave properties of the
filter as a whole is revealed. For example, in [5]
in case of many-sectioned wave-guides, it is experimentally established that the lengths of the arbitrarily chosen sections scatter coherently the
chopped reflections and make the ripples
The reflected signal amplitude growing in
excess of its end-to-end response can be raised by single reflected signals from the
points far from the source [5]. |