Tuned filter calibration system

Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Calibration or correction system – Circuit tuning

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702112, 702 66, 702190, 324 7629, G01R 2700

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060187026

ABSTRACT:
A filter calibration system uses the reflection characteristics of a tuned filter, such as a YIG-tuned filter (YTF), to establish a correspondence between a control signal applied to the filter and the passband center frequency of the filter. This correspondence enables tuning characteristic of a YTF stored during a baseline characterization of a spectrum analyzer to be corrected to compensate for temperature changes and changes in operating parameters of the spectrum analyzer. The filter calibration system uses components within the spectrum analyzer to perform the calibration so that the manufacturing cost of the spectrum analyzer is not increased. The spectrum analyzer's local oscillator provides a stimulus signal that is applied to the YTF. A mixer within the spectrum analyzer detects reflections of the stimulus signal by the YTF while control signals applied to the YTF are varied to correspondingly adjust the passband center frequency of the YTF. The detected reflections from the YTF at the various control signal levels are recorded and characteristics of this reflection response are used to map the control signal levels to the center frequencies of the YTF to compensate for changes in the tuning characteristic of the YTF.

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