• DocumentCode
    879020
  • Title

    Minimum loss of a general broadband mixer

  • Author

    Howson, D.P.

  • Author_Institution
    University of Bradford, Postgraduate School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bradford, UK
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1969
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    125
  • Abstract
    It is shown that, for a diode mixer in which the input and local-oscillator frequencies are nearly equal, the minimum conversion loss is, quite generally, 3dB. This only depends on the diode behaving as a time-varying resistance, and on the terminating impedances presented to each pair of neighbouring modulation products being the same.
  • Keywords
    mixers (circuits);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19690093
  • Filename
    4210308
    • Link To Document
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