heterodyne cavity oscillator
heterodyne cavity oscillator
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Looking for design info on the structure of a cavity oscillator that will provide a heterodyne difference frequency output.
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RE: heterodyne cavity oscillator
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RE: heterodyne cavity oscillator
RE: heterodyne cavity oscillator
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The lower frequency excitations are now imediately extincted as the cavity can not support them, but the lo+if term can be excited as a higher order cavity mode, TE202 or others. It is your job the efficiently extract this essentally doubled frequency for the overmoded cavity.
In this case you have effectively designed a frequency mixer with output 2*If, 2*Lo and IF+LO, some filtering or a choke may be required to remove the fundementals however.
To be used as a down converter, this scheme is useless as it provides no lo/if isolation and therefor the lo sidebands will totally swamp out whatever if you may have generated in the form of an IF.
I hope this is what you are looking for. My experience is the waveguide type cavities. The DR and MS types may as well have promise in producing mixers with 50dB conversion loss as well.