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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 1978
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1976
Marvin Cohn, Baltimore, MD (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A harmonic mixer utilizing an anti-parallel configuration of two diodes which, when excited by a voltage waveform V.sub.LO sin .omega..sub.LO t + V.sub.s sin .omega..sub.s t where V.sub.LO is much greater than V.sub.s, yields a terminal current having angular frequency components m .omega..sub.LO .+-. n .omega..sub.s with the restriction that m + n is an odd integer. The diode configuration results in low conversion loss mixing when the local oscillator frequency is a subharmonic of the usually required local oscillator frequency, suppression of local oscillator noise sideband effects without the use of filters or hybrid junctions, and suppression of direct video detection.