Patent ID: 8841922

Claim:
A passive architecture for synthesizing high reflective impedance factor, the architecture comprising: a source-pull architecture including: a RF source generator adapted to emit an input traveling wave at a testing frequency; a closed passive loop adapted to receive the input traveling wave and to also feed-forward the input traveling wave to a device under test (DUT) through a tuner and to then send back to the DUT a portion of the reflected input traveling wave through the tuner as a supplementary traveling wave at the same testing frequency to be assembled to the input traveling wave; the tuner adapted to send the portion of the reflected input traveling wave to be assembled by the passive loop as a supplementary traveling wave, the tuner further adapted to present a high magnitude reflection coefficient to the DUT by the superposition of the supplementary traveling wave and the input traveling wave; and a load-pull architecture including: a load tuner adapted to reflect to the DUT a portion of an output travelling wave at the testing frequency coming out from the DUT; a load side closed passive loop adapted to first receive a portion of the output traveling wave through the load tuner and, second, to send back a supplementary travelling wave to the DUT through the load tuner.