A Solid-State, One-Watt, Tunable Exciter for the 4.4 - 5.0 GC Communications Band

This paper descriaes a number of new techniques leading to the development of a completely solid-state source capable of delivering power in excess of 3 watts at a fixed frequency in ¿C¿ band, or power in excess of 1 watt rapidly tunable within an 18% bandwidth centered at 4.7 gc. The system is designed to carry multichannel FDM-FM, and is locked to a crystal source with a stability of one part in 106. Spurious responses of the exciter are, typically, 60 - 80 db below the output carrier frequency.