A balanced diode grid mixer

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Swisher, RR [1 ]
Lécuyer, F [1 ]
Chio, IFF [1 ]
Chiao, JC [1 ]
DeLisio, MP [1 ]
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[1] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Elect Engn, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
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We report the first results from a planar 16-element balanced quasi-optical diode mixer grid. Each unit cell contains four Schottky diodes arranged in a quad bridge configuration. We report a conversion loss of 14 dB at an RF frequency of 3.44 GHz, an IF frequency of 340 MHz, and an incident LO power of 7.3 mu W per diode. We report a third-order intercept of 4.7 dBm. Antenna pattern and polarizer tuning curves are presented, and our results are compared with theoretical predictions.
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