The present invention includes phase shifters, interrogators, methods of
shifting a phase angle of a signal, and methods of operating an
interrogator. One aspect of the present invention provides a phase
shifter including a first power divider configured to receive a signal
and provide plural quadrature components of the signal; plural mixers
coupled with the first power divider and configured to scale the
quadrature components using a phase shift angle; and a second power
divider coupled with the mixers and configured to combine the scaled
quadrature components to shift the phase angle of the input signal by the
phase shift angle.