Abstract
A Ka-band quasi-elliptic bandpass filter (BPF) based on stereolithography apparatus (SLA) 3-D printing technique is proposed. The filter consists of four coupled resonators with three direct couplings between adjacent resonators and a cross coupling between the first and fourth resonators. Benefited from this feature, a pair of transmission zeros (TZs) can be produced in the stopband to enhance the passband selectivity significantly. Additionally, two waveguide bends are incorporated with the input and output waveguides to facilitate experimental test. For demonstration, a 3-D printed BPF prototype with center frequency of 30 GHz, bandwidth of 1.4 GHz, and return loss better than 20 dB is implemented and tested. The weight of the filter is 9.8 g only. The measured results demonstrate that the passband return loss is better than 10 dB, and the average in-band insertion loss is less than 2 dB.
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