0.22 THz Waveguide Bandpass Filter with High Stop-Band Suppression

Abstract

A terahertz (THz) waveguide band-pass filter using an iris inductive window coupled structure was designed and fabricated. The filter was designed at 0.22 THz with a pass band of 20 GHz. The measured results show that the center frequency is 0.218 THz with a pass band of 0.205 THz to 0.231 THz, the minimum insertion loss is 1.26 dB at 0.224 THz, and the return loss is less than 13.1 dB. The stop-band suppression is 65.6 dB at 0.193 THz and 51.8 dB at 0.243 THz, respectively, which means a good performance of high stop-band suppression. A good agreement exists between the measured S-parameters and the simulated ones, especially in the upper band. The proposed THz waveguide filter has potential applications in THz communications.