Title :
Q band up-converter
Author :
Convert, Emmanuelle R O ; Mahon, Simon J. ; Harvey, James T. ; Hwang, MacCrae G McCulloch Steve ; Mould, Rodney G. ; Fattorini, Anthony P. ; Clement, Ryan M. ; Young, Alan C.
Author_Institution :
Sydney Design Centre, Macom Technol. Solutions, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
A packaged up-converter has been developed for the ETSI 42 GHz point-to-point radio band. The MMIC contains an LO-doubler-buffer amplifier, an image-reject balanced mixer and an RF variable gain amplifier. The up-converter has 10 dB conversion gain, 15 dB image rejection, 15 dB of gain control, 15 dBm IIP3 and 50 dB LO-to-RF isolation in the mixer. The up-converter consumes less than 1 watt DC represents the state of the art in performance, integration and cost.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; MMIC amplifiers; gallium arsenide; millimetre wave mixers; power convertors; ETSI point-to-point radio band; GaAs; LO-doubler-buffer amplifier; MMIC; Q band up-converter; RF variable gain amplifier; frequency 42 GHz; gain 10 dB; gain 15 dB; gain 50 dB; gain control; image-reject balanced mixer; packaged up-converter; Gain; Gain control; Linearity; MMICs; Microwave filters; Mixers; Radio frequency; Intermodulation distortion; MMICs; Millimetre wave transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tel Aviv
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1692-8
DOI :
10.1109/COMCAS.2011.6105787
