Abstract:
A mixer is provided having a mixing element, an input signal port for incoming signals at a frequency f.sub.IN, a local oscillator signal port for signals from a local oscillator having a fundamental frequency f.sub.LO, and an output port from which the resultant frequency may be taken. Means are provided to impose a DC component of bias voltage across the mixing element at one of three levels. The mixer is such that it has a pair of conduction threshold voltages which are substantially symmetrical above and below zero volts, beyond which the mixing element will be conductive at least when a signal from the local oscillator is imposed on it. The signal from the local oscillator has substantially sinusoidal voltage waveform, with a peak-to-peak voltage which is greater than the voltage difference between the pair of conduction threshold voltages. When the first zero DC component bias voltage is imposed across the mixer element, the mixing element is conductive in respective symmetrical positive-going and negative-going senses, and the maximized resultant frequency is .vertline.f.sub.IN .+-.2f.sub.LO .vertline.. When the second DC component of bias voltage is imposed across the mixing element, it conducts only once per cycle of local oscillator voltage, so that the maximized resultant frequency is .vertline.f.sub.IN .+-.f.sub.LO .vertline.. When the third DC component of bias voltage is imposed across the mixing element, the value of voltage across the mixing element exceeds the threshold voltage in the same sense as the voltage shift for about 35% to about 55% of the period of the local oscillator voltage cycle making the mixer conductive, but it is also conductive in the opposite sense for at least a portion of the remaining period of the cycle, so that third harmonic mixing occurs, and the maximized resultant frequency is .vertline.f.sub.IN .+-.3f.sub.LO .vertline..
Abstract translation:提供混频器,其具有混频元件,用于频率fIN的输入信号的输入信号端口,用于来自具有基频fLO的本地振荡器的信号的本地振荡器信号端口以及可以从其获得合成频率的输出端口 。 提供装置以在三个级别中的一个级别上施加跨混合元件的偏置电压的DC分量。 混频器使得它具有一对导通阈值电压,它们在零伏以上和低于零电压基本上是对称的,超过该导通阈值电压至少当来自本地振荡器的信号被施加时,混合元件将导通。 来自本地振荡器的信号具有基本上正弦的电压波形,峰 - 峰电压大于一对导通阈值电压之间的电压差。 当第一零直流分量偏置电压施加在混频器元件上时,混合元件在相应的对称正向和负向感测中是导电的,并且最大化的合成频率为| fIN +/- 2fLO |。 当偏置电压的第二直流分量施加在混频元件上时,它每周期本地振荡器电压仅传导一次,使最大合成频率为| fIN +/- fLO |。 当偏置电压的第三直流分量施加在混频元件上时,混频元件两端的电压值超出与本地振荡器周期约35%至约55%的电压偏移相同的阈值电压 电压周期使得混频器导通,但是对于周期的剩余周期的至少一部分,它也在相反的方向上导通,使得发生三次谐波混合,并且最大化的合成频率为| fIN +/- 3fLO |。
Abstract:
A method and apparatus comprising a sampler frequency converter having a first and a second diode. A local oscillator having a frequency F.sub.LO, a step recovery diode and a balun transformer are used for providing positive and negative sampling pulses to the diodes for sampling an input signal applied to the diodes having a frequency F.sub.IN. An output signal is provided by the diodes having a frequency F.sub.OUT which is defined by the relationship F.sub.OUT .vertline.F.sub.IN .+-.N.times.F.sub.LO .vertline. where N is an integer harmonic number 1, 2, 3 . . . and the output signal has an amplitude which varies as a function of (sin x)/x where x=F.sub.IN. A bandpass filter is provided which is responsive to the output signal for filtering a predetermined band of frequencies therefrom and a bias circuit is provided for forward biasing the diodes so that the frequency F.sub.IN of said input signal at which nulls occur in said (sin x)/x relationship occur at a lower frequency after said biasing than before said biasing.
Abstract:
A diode mixer arrangement including a mixer stage connected for receiving a signal having a frequency to be converted and an oscillator signal having one of a plurality of preselectable oscillator frequencies. The mixer stage includes diodes arranged to be biased by a predetermined direct control voltage for the compensation of parasitic influences. A voltage branch is connected to the mixer stage for producing the predetermined direct control voltage. The voltage branch includes a memory device for storing a plurality of data signals each of which represents a predetermined direct control voltage corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of preselectable oscillator frequencies. The memory device has an input for receiving an input signal which represents the preselectable oscillator frequency of the oscillator signal received by the mixer stage and an output for reading out the corresponding data signal which is used by the voltage branch to generate the predetermined direct control voltage.
Abstract:
A CATV converter of a dual frequency conversion type is constructed in a chassis divided into compartments for accommodating respective stages between the input and output terminals. The primary and secondary local oscillators are disposed apart with other compartments interposed therebetween thereby to enhance the input to output isolation.
Abstract:
A frequency converter has first, second and third terminals which receive a first signal having a first frequency band, a local oscillation signal, and a second signal having a second frequency band. The first signal and the local oscillation signal are mixed to generate the second signal. A first branching circuit is connected between the second terminal and the frequency mixer, for branching part of the local oscillation signal. A first part of the branched local oscillation signal, which is supplied from the first branching circuit, and a first leaked local oscillation signal are applied from the frequency mixer to the first terminal. The phase and amplitude of the first branched local oscillation signal are adjusted so that the first branched local oscillation signal and the first leaked local oscillation signal have equal amplitude and are reversed in phase to cancel each other.
Abstract:
A microwave integrated circuit device for reception wherein a microwave integrated circuit substrate is mounted on a short-circuited plane of an inner surface of a waveguide, a rectangular groove is provided in the short-circuited plane, and a mixer diode is arranged astride the groove.
Abstract:
A microwave frequency converting device to be used in a microwave waveguide comprising a conductor plate on which all the necessary circuit elements are provided by slot shaped conductor pattern.
Abstract:
By inserting a rectangular conductive flat member into a waveguide in contact relation of their edge portions to the waveguide walls in parallel with an electric field therein, cutoff frequencies at portions of the waveguide to which the conductive flat member is inserted become higher to form a cutoff region. The conductive flat member is composed of a conductor plate or by evaporating a conductive thick film on a dielectric or magnetic plate. The conductive flat member occasionally lined with a non-conductive flat member is provided with circuit elements such as slots formed by punching and strip lines or semiconductor diodes formed by evaporation, and microwave circuits having various functions such as filter circuits, directional couplers, oscillator circuits, frequency converter circuits, frequency multiplier circuits, switch circuits, phase shifter circuits, etc. are constructed on the conductive flat member by combination of the circuit elements through mutual coupling therebetween. These microwave circuits are coupled to transmission regions of the waveguide adjoining both sides of the cut-off region by circuit elements located at the end portion of the conductive flat member. Accordingly, only by inserting into the waveguide a conductive flat member on which various circuit elements are provided, desired microwave circuits of various kinds are constructed very easily inside the waveguide. Such microwave circuits are small in size and low in transmission loss due to elimination of waveguide converters conventionally used, and are suitable for massproduction due to simplicity of structure and ease of manufacturing and assembling which results from mechanical working technique of high degree being unnecessary.
Abstract:
A system for deriving a constant intermediate frequency output over a band of input frequencies comprising a mixer, a power splitter for splitting the output of the mixer into two segments of equal power, two band pass filters connected to the power splitter and a servo loop incorporating a variable frequency local oscillator whose output is connected to the mixer such that the output of the local oscillator is controlled to maintain the output of the mixer at an essentially constant frequency.