Harmonic Mixing with an Antiparallel Diode Pair
- 1 August 1975
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
- Vol. 23 (8) , 667-673
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.1975.1128646
Abstract
An analytical and experimental investigation of the properties of an antiparallel diode pair is presented. Such a configuration has the following unique and advantageous characteristics as a harmonic mixer: 1) reduced conversion loss by suppressing fundamental mixing products; 2) lower noise figure through suppression of local oscillator noise sidebands; 3) suppression of direct video detection; 4) inherent self protection against large peak inverse voltage burnout. These results are obtained without the use of either filters or balanced circuits employing hybrid junctions.Keywords
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