Abstract: A sampling signal analyzer in which the frequency of an input signal to be measured is initially ascertained, an appropriate sampling frequency is then determined, data needed to reconstruct the wave form of the input signal is acquired, and the input signal wave shape is reconstructed with a calibrated time axis and preferably displayed. The sampling signal analyzer synthesizes a sampler drive signal to enable continuous sampling of the input signal and therefore has the advantage over known data sampling signal measurement instruments that it is not triggered directly in response to the level of the input signal to be measured. Instead, sample timing is based on numerical analysis of the intermediate frequency (IF) signal produced by the sampler. The IF frequency can be an arbitrarily low frequency, which allows digitizing and digital signal processing for aligning measurement data from sweep to sweep with precision.

Abstract: A microwave mixer is integrated with an yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) tuning element to provide a YIG tuned heterodyne conveter or mixer. An input signal is provided to the YIG tuning element by an input coupling loop and local oscillator power is provided to an output coupling loop. A mixing diode is connected in series with the output coupling loop close to the YIG tuning element, and the mixing products appear on the output coupling loop. The output coupling loop is connected to a circuit which separates the local oscillator input signal from the intermediate frequency output signal.