FBGI-3.84G FILTER PRELIMINARY REV: 003, 05/27/04 TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION / APPLICATION MULTI-MIX® FILTERS Merrimac’s FBGI Series bandpass filters combine the features of Merrimac’s patented Multi-Mix® multilayer fabrication technology with the ability to operate to three times their center frequency without reentrant spurious passbands. They typically offer better overall performance than filters designed to the same specification with conventional filter fabrication techniques. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS FILTER TYPE CENTER FREQUENCY 1 dB OPERATING BANDWIDTH (MHz MIN) BANDPASS 3.84 GHz Nominal 400 SIZE (INCHES) WEIGHT (GRAMS/OZ.) RF INTERFACE/CONNECTIONS OPERATING TEMPERATURE 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.05 0.6 / 0.02 SMT or 50 Ohm, co-planar waveguide launch with gold pads -55° - +85° C INSERTION LOSS @ CENTER FREQUENCY 0.8 dB (MAX) REJECTION VSWR (MAX) -30 dB MIN. @ 2.0 GHz -20 dB MIN. @ 5.4 GHz -30 dB MIN. @ 7.2 GHz 1.5:1 @ 3.84±0.1 GHz PACKAGE OUTLINE NOTES: 1. ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN INCHES. 2. TOLERANCES: -3 PLACE DECIMALS; ±.005. THE MULTI-MIX MICROTECHNOLOGY® GROUP IS ISO 9001:2000 REGISTERED U.S. patent 6,099,677 and other patents pending. Merrimac Industries / 41 Fairfield Place, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Tel: 1.888.434.MMFM / Fax: 973.882.5990 / Email: [email protected] / www.Multi-Mix.com FBGI-3.84G TYPICAL PERFORMANCE Transmission vs. Frequency 0 -10 -20 Magnitude (dB) -30 -40 -50 -60 -70 -80 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 6.00 6.50 7.00 Frequency (GHz) Return Loss and Transmission vs. Frequency 0 -10 Magnitude (dB) -20 Return Loss (dB) Transmission (dB) -30 -40 -50 -60 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 4.1 4.2 6.5 7 Frequency (GHz) Near In Transmission vs. Frequency 0 Magnitude (dB) -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4 4.3 4.4 4.5 Frequency (GHz) THE MULTI-MIX MICROTECHNOLOGY® GROUP IS ISO 9001:2000 REGISTERED Merrimac Industries / 41 Fairfield Place, West Caldwell, NJ 07006 Tel: 1.888.434.MMFM / Fax: 973.882.5990 / Email: [email protected] / www.Multi-Mix.com