Frequency multiplier response to spurious signals and its effect on local oscillator systems in millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4855, Issue , 2002, Pages 480-488

  Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^a   Schlecht, Erich ^b   Maiwald, Frank ^b   Dengler, Robert J ^b   Pearson, John C ^b   Mehdi, Imran ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency multipliers; Millimeter and submillimeter waves; Spurious signals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; VARACTORS;

LOCAL OSCILLATORS SYSTEMS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT POWER AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL HARMONIC BALANCE SIMULATION;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0037731319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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