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Does mixer's IMT table account for leakage of LO? Also, why are there no tables for upconversion?

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I'm trying to make sense of IMT tables, let's take this one for example. Does the term 0xLO-1xRF include RF to IF isolation of the mixer or it needs to be accounted for separately? Similar question about 1xLO-0xRF, in this example that product would have magnitude of -13.6 dBm, would LO to IF leakage (+15 dBm - 50 dB = -35 dBm) need to be added to this product, so we get two LO tones on top of each other at the IF output (-35 dBm + -13.6 dBm)?

Assuming I was correct about what these values mean, this makes me wonder why aren't there IMT tables for upconverter modes of mixer operation? What would this table look like if RF>LO?

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Signs are not correct. They should be negative.
If the reference signal is M=1 N=1 that is zero dBm, the other dBc values should be negative compare to this reference.
 

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