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Transmission zeroes

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Transmission zeroes

A transmission zero is a frequency at which the transfer function of a linear two-port network has zero transmission. Transmission zeroes at zero frequency and infinite frequency may be found in high-pass filters and low-pass filters respectively. Transmission zeroes at finite, non-zero frequency may be found in Band-stop filters, elliptic filters, and Type II Chebyshev filters. Transfer functions with both zero and infinite frequency can be found in band-pass filters. A transfer function may have multiple zeroes at the same frequency. A transfer function may have any number of transmission zeroes at zero frequency and infinite frequency, but transmission zeroes at finite non-zero frequency always come in conjugate pairs.

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Generalized impedance converter

The circuit depicted to the left, based on a GIC (generalized impedance converter), has finite non-zero transmission zeroes.

State variable derived

The filter circuit to the left has the following transfer function:

H ( s ) = ( R 2 R 8 R 5 R 6 ) s 2 R 3 C 1 R 5 C 2 + s [ ( R 3 R 1 ) ( 1 R 1 R 6 R 4 R 7 ) R 5 C 2 ] + R 6 R 7 s 2 R 3 C 1 R 2 C 2 + s ( R 3 R 1 ) R 2 C 2 + R 8 R 7

This circuit produces transmission zeroes at

ω 0 Z = [ R 6 / R 7 R 3 C 1 R 5 C 2 ] 1 2

References

Transmission zeroes Wikipedia


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