Patent ID: 10629978

Abstract:
A microwave isolator device includes two nondegenerate microwave mixer devices, each mixer configured to receive a microwave input of an input frequency via a first port and to generate an idler signal of an idler frequency at a second port. The second ports of both mixers are coupled together. A first input/output (I/O) port is coupled to the first ports of the two mixers, and a second I/O port is also coupled to the first ports of the two mixers. A microwave signal (signal) communicated between the first I/O port and the second I/O port is transmitted while propagating in a first direction between the first I/O port to the second I/O port through the first mixer and the second mixer and to be blocked while propagating in a second direction between the second I/O port to the first I/O through the first mixer and the second mixer.