The Spectral Balance: A General Method for Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits Driven by Non-Harmonically Related Generators

A very wide class of non-linear microwave circuits including mixers, oscillators (with their noise generators) and multitone amplifiers, are driven by non-harmonically related signals, and involve very far or closely-spaced frequency components. In this paper an efflcient method is proposed to perform the balance of non-linear circuits driven by non-harmonically related input signals. It may be named: The spectral balance.