Back to Component Home Page FREQUENCY MULTIPLIERS Table of Contents FREQUENCY MULTIPLIERS Technical Overview Application Notes Short-Form Listing Detailed Data Sheets Higher-Order Active Assem. PASSIVE AND ACTIVE • Doublers • Triplers • Higher-Order Products Outline Drawings ¤ 100 Davids Drive • Hauppauge • NY 11788 • 631-436-7400 • Fax: 631-436-7430 • www.miteq.com TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE CONTENTS PAGE CORPORATE OVERVIEW 2 Active Frequency Doublers MAX2M260400 27 INTRODUCTION 3 MAX2M260400W (Waveguide WR28 Output) 28 TECHNICAL OVERVIEW 3 MAX2M390440-20P 29 MAX2M360500 30 Technical Discussion 4 MAX2M300500 31 Design Example 5 MAX2M020040 32 Specification Definitions 5 MAX2M040080 33 Defining Multiplier Terms 6 MAX2M080160 34 Typical Block Diagrams 6 MAX2M130260 35 Specifications and Typical Values 8 MAX2M200400 36 Environmental Conditions 8 MAX2M200400-20P 37 Percentage Bandwidth, Rejection MAX2M010060 38 and Size 8 MAX2M030180 39 Active Frequency Multipliers 9 MAX2M060260 40 APPLICATION NOTES HIGHER-ORDER ACTIVE MULTIPLIER ASSEMBLIES Common Applications 9 X 3 41 SHORT-FORM LISTING X 4 42 X 5 44 Passive Frequency Doublers 10 X 5 (Hermetic Product) 45 Passive Frequency Triplers 10 X 6 46 Active Frequency Doublers 11 X 16 47 Active Frequency Triplers 12 X 32 49 Higher-Order Active Multipliers 13 X 48 50 DETAILED DATA SHEETS OUTLINE DRAWINGS Passive Frequency Doublers Passive Multipliers 51 MX2M020040 17 Active Multipliers 53 MX2M040080 18 MX2M080160 19 FAX-BACK PAGE 59 MX2M130260 20 MX2M260400 21 ISO 9001:2000 60 MX2M004010 22 MX2M010060 23 ORDERING INFORMATION 60 MX2M030180 24 WARRANTY 61 MX2M060260 25 Passive Frequency Triplers ADDITIONAL MITEQ PRODUCTS 62 MX3M320400 26 FEDERAL SUPPLY CODE Our Federal Supply Code is: 33592 CORPORATE OVERVIEW MITEQ, an acronym for (M)icrowave (I)nformation (T)rans- • Land, sea, and airborne radar mission (EQ)uipment, designs and manufactures a complete • Air traffic control radar line of high-performance components and subsystems for • Radioastronomy the microwave electronics community. Located on Long • Research and development efforts Island, New York for more than thirty years, it has grown into a company which is dedicated to achieving technical excel- MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN CAPABILITIES lence, producing quality products and satisfying our cus- tomer’s specific needs. MITEQ’s state-of-the-art facilities presently consist of five adjacent buildings totaling 217,000 square feet. In addition STANDARD PRODUCT LINES to housing fifteen separate engineering and manufacturing groups, MITEQ prides itself on its support groups including: MITEQ’s product lines are basically split between two market drafting, which uses the latest commercial CADD and pro- segments: prietary software programs; and an extensive machine shop, which includes top-of-the-line numerically-controlled • Microwave components and integrated assemblies Okuma, Mitsui Seiki and Matsuura vertical machining cen- • Satellite communications & earth station equipment ters capable of machining to the tightest of tolerances, guar- anteeing repeated accuracy and reliability. MITEQ has three The Microwave Component Division offers designs up to and Class 100,000 and two Class 10,000 cleanrooms in support over 60 GHz, including: of high reliability space and military applications. • Amplifiers: Moderate to broadband, ultralow-noise To accomplish the engineering, manufacturing and testing to medium-power, bipolar, and GaAs FET designs of MITEQ’s components and assemblies, MITEQ invests • Mixers: Single-, double-, and triple-balanced, MESFET heavily in capital equipment. This state-of-the-art equipment and Schottky mixers and low-noise receiver front ends includes a wide array of vector network analyzers and syn- • Frequency multipliers thesized sources, phase noise test sets, custom noise figure • Passive power components measuring equipment, glass furnace equipment to control • Microwave assemblies, systems and technologies: the process of glass sealing, thermal/humidity chambers, Solid-state switches, attenuators, and power dividers and PIND and shock and vibration stations for environmen- • RF and IF signal processing components tal screening, to name a few. • Oscillators: Crystal, voltage, cavity tuned, free-running, and phase-locked QUALITY ASSURANCE • Frequency synthesizers • Integrated multifunction assemblies MITEQ is recognized as a world class supplier with an out- • Fiber Optic products standing reputation for product quality. MITEQ has under- gone the extensive ISO-9001:2000 certification process to MITEQ’s Satellite Communication and Earth Station help secure its future as a primary source for advanced Equipment Groups manufacture the following: microwave products. • Up/downconverters SPACE HERITAGE • Test translators • IF/video equalizers MITEQ’s continued advancements in this state-of-the-art • Redundancy switchover units and unique capability have led to a wide acceptance by the • Video modulators and modems microwave community as a forerunner in spaceborne tech- nology. Our space-qualified components include mixers, Specific products include synthesized converters with 1.0 amplifiers, synthesizers, and super-components. MITEQ’s kHz and 125 kHz frequency step sizes, INMARSAT L- and C- Space-Qualified Quality Assurance Plan establishes the band converters, pilot generators and receivers, crystal con- actions necessary to provide confidence that the end item trolled converters, video exciters, and custom designed prod- will meet the quality, reliability, and electrical performance ucts. required for space-qualified applications. Recent space plat- forms include: CUSTOM DESIGN CAPABILITIES • AMSU-B • SSMIS • GEOSAT • SEAWINDS • P99 Although MITEQ offers one of the broadest lines of standard • SEASAT • SPINSAT • TOPEX catalog items, the bulk of MITEQ’s business is in customized components, assemblies, and systems designed specifically CUSTOMER SERVICE around the customer’s needs. MITEQ’s heavy emphasis on internal R&D throughout its history has lead to the creation of MITEQ continually evaluates its service procedures to a company with the ability to adapt quickly to the changing ensure that a close relationship is maintained between the needs of the customer and market while at the same time company and its customers. The goal in every case is to offering competitive prices and fast turnaround times. deliver products of exceptional quality, backed by respon- sive technical and administrative support. MITEQ remains APPLICATIONS committed to offering comprehensive technical support to its customers through a direct customer-to-MITEQ engineering MITEQ’s components and systems are supplied to a wide link. This enables a quick response to the customer’s needs, variety of military and commercial markets including: and ensures receipt of exactly what the customer requires: Delivery of cost-effective solutions for the most demanding • Satellite and ground-based communication systems applications. • Missile guidance • Military electronic countermeasures, radar warning and surveillance systems 2 INTRODUCTION This catalog is intended to provide an overview of suppression as required in many frequency source MITEQ's passive and active multiplier capabilities. applications by employing special filter technologies. Within this catalog you will find a variety of standard designs which will meet typical applications. However, In addition to custom-filter designs, MITEQ also has MITEQ maintains dedicated engineering resources to advanced amplifier technologies which, when com- modify these standard designs in support of custom- bined with balanced multiplier designs, offer high per- generated specifications that are typically required in formance active multipliers especially in the areas of stringent system applications. These critical require- shaped frequency response and desired output levels. ments often require high spectral purity. MITEQ can obtain high levels of fundamental and spurious signal TECHNICAL OVERVIEW Most of MITEQ’s frequency multiplier designs perform to specific customer requirements and cannot easily be cat- egorized into standard products. Parameters such as frequency range, bandwidth, spurious rejection and multipli- cation ratios are normally determined by specific system requirements. These requirements, in turn, translate into custom-designed filter and amplifier specifications at the multiplier design level. In most frequency multiplier designs, the multiplier output contains, besides the desired harmonic output, unwanted signals. These unwanted signals consist of the fundamental input signal leakage, and lower-order and higher-order harmonics generated in the multiplier. Quite often with odd-order multipliers, the undesired signals are higher in level than the desired signal. In even-order multipliers, the undesired outputs are normally 10 to 20 dB below the desired output. Thus, the output signals can be amplified before the output is filtered. This is not possible with odd-order mul- tipliers because the unwanted signals will cause the amplifier to saturate and suppress the desired output. The eas- iest to characterize as standard products are the frequency doublers because of their wide bandwidth and relative- ly high rejection to input harmonics. For these reasons, the frequency doubler section of the product line offers more standard models than the higher- order frequency multipliers. Definitions of key performance parameters vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. Some of the variations are