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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 11, November 2000

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Analysis, Design, and Experimental Verification of Microwave Filters for Safety Issues in Open-Ended Waveguide Systems

Pablo Soto, Vicente E. Boria, Associate Member, IEEE Jose M. Catalá-Civera, Nabil Chouaib, Marco Guglielmi and Benito Gimeno

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Abstract:

Safety issues must be seriously considered in the practical implementation of microwave industrial systems with open ports. To preserve the radiation of these open-ended waveguide systems into permissible levels, bandstop microwave filters are widely used. In this paper, the accurate analysis, design, and experimental verification procedure of such filters are extensively studied. A singly and a doubly corrugated filter for continuous flow microwave industrial systems are designed. Two prototypes of such devices have been manufactured and experimentally verified.

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