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This article presents an improved factor of merit for the comparison of center-frequency tunable bandpass filters. This study draws up a comparison between existing tunable filters for which different commonly used parameters demonstrating their performance are given. A first factor of merit that takes all the major characteristics of such tunable filters into account is introduced. A second factor of merit is proposed to evaluate the filter compactness. These new factors of merit are applied for the comparison of more than 30 recently published papers. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 985–988, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24220 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on a study which examined a microwave microstrip line terminated by a laser illumination that alters the behavior of the microwave device. Description of the procedure; Explanation of the physical phenomenon; Simulation and results.

A microwave integrated, tunable, low-pass filter is presented. This coplanar filter exhibits a wide tuning range of the cutoff frequency (±19% around 4.3 GHz) and a -30 dB stopband that extends up to 30 GHz. Insertion loss is 1.5 dB at low frequencies and return loss is better than 14 dB in the passband. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2566–2568, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23707 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe an optically controlled microwave attenuator based on a microstrip reverse directional coupler where optical illumination modifies the loads at the coupling and transmission ports. A tunable attenuation up to 10 dB was measured at the center frequency, Experimental and theoretical results are compared and agree well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]