Title :
Quadrature Compensation in Wide-Band Double Balanced Modulators
Author_Institution :
Avionics Div., ITT, Nutley, NJ, USA
fDate :
3/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
It is shown that double balanced microwave mixers, operating over a wide band of frequencies at the RF input ports, have spurious outputs due to lack of quadrature in the RF hybrid section, which can be minimized by introducing phase compensation into the modulation ports.
Keywords :
Microwave mixers; Modulation/demodulation; Amplitude modulation; Frequency synthesizers; High power microwave generation; Limiting; Phase modulation; Power generation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Radio frequency; Signal generators; Wideband;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOM.1984.1096052