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Symmetric mixer for millimeter waves and a receiver using such a mixer
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Inventors: Cachier, Gerard;
Assignee: Thomson-CSF (Paris, FR)
Primary Examiner: Bookbinder; Marc E.
Assistant Examiner: Chin; Tommy P.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Oblon, Fisher, Spivak, McClelland & Maier
The invention aims at obtaining an intermediate beat frequency from two millimeter wave frequencies by attenuating as much as possible the amplitude variations of the frequency coming from the local oscillator. The mixer of the invention comprises two modules each containing a diode, one electrode of which is grounded to a conducting support. The modules are face to face. The diodes detect the electric field of the wave of the signal to be processed reigning in a cavity, and through conducting strips serving as outputs for the mixer and extending into a cavity where the electric field radiated by the local oscillator reigns, each module also detects a part of this electric field. The output terminals of the intermediate frequency are connected to an operational amplifier. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A symmetric mixer for millimiter waves of the type comprising two modules, each of these modules comprising a conducting support, a semiconductor diode in contact with the support through one of its conducting electrodes, a layer of dielectric material placed on the support and surrounding the diode and a metallization deposited on said layer of dielectric material and in contact with the other electrode of the diode the improvement comprising: said two modules being disposed face to face in an electromagnetic field representing a signal to be processed, connections for said metallizations of the modules with each connection having an output terminal for the mixer and a conducting strip with one end inserted between the metallizations of the modules and the other end plunged in an electromagnetic field radiated by a local oscillator.
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A symmetric mixer for millimeter waves, of the type comprising two modules, each of these modules comprising a conducting support, a semiconductor diode in contact with the support through one of its conducting electrodes, a layer of dielectric material placed on said support and surrounding the diode and a metallization deposited on said layer of dielectric material and in contact with the other electrode of the diode, the improvement comprising said two modules being disposed face to face in an electro-magnetic field representing a signal to be processed, two parallel conducting strips being deposited onto both faces of a dielectric foil inserted between the metallizations of the modules and each of said conducting strips having an output terminal for the mixer, and said parallel conducting strips and said foil having further one ends plunged in an electro-magnetic field radiated by a local oscillator.
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The symmetric mixer as claimed in claim 2, wherein the two conducting strips are in the form of metallizations of a two face printed circuit.
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The symmetric mixer as claimed in one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the diodes are disposed in opposite fashion in the two modules, the cathode of the one and the anode of the other being connected to ground whereas the anode of the one and the cathode of the other are connected to the signal outputs of the mixer
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