Harmonically Pumped Stripline Down-Converter

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 1974 English Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, volume 23, pages 271-275 (issn: 0018-9480,

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Authors: M. V. Schneider; W. W. Snell;

doi: 10.1109/tmtt.1975.1128547 , 10.1109/euma.1974.331990

Harmonically Pumped Stripline Down-Converter

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A novel thin-film down-converter which is pumped at a submultiple of the local-oscillator frequency has given a conversion loss which is comparable to the performance of conventional balanced mixers. The converter consists of two stripline filters and two Schottky-barrier diodes which are shunt mounted in a strip transmission line. The conversion loss measured at a signal frequency of 3.5 GHz is 3.2 dB for a pump frequency of 1.7 GHz and 4.9 dB for a pump frequency of 0.85 GHz. The circuit looks attractive for use at millimeter-wave frequencies where stable pump sources with low FM noise are not readily available.

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