X-BAND LOW PHASE-DISTORTION MMIC POWER LIMITER

Authors
PARRA T DIENOT J GAYRAL M POUYSEGUR M SAUTEREAU J GRAFFEUIL J
Citation
T. Parra et al., X-BAND LOW PHASE-DISTORTION MMIC POWER LIMITER, IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques, 41(5), 1993, pp. 876-879
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189480
Volume
41
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
876 - 879
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9480(1993)41:5<876:XLPMPL>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
This paper describes the design and performance of a 8 GHz MMIC MESFET power limiter. This limiter incorporates a special gate biasing schem e and makes use of appropriate load conditions which reduce the unexpe cted phase variations experienced by the signal through the device. Me asured performances (phase variations less than 8-degrees over a 22 dB input power range) are found to be in agreement with the theoretical ones obtained from large signal simulations.