Title :
Novel decade electronically tunable microwave oscillator based on the distributed amplifier
Author :
Skvor, Z. ; Saunders, S.R. ; Aitchison, C.S.
Abstract :
The authors suggest that a microwave distributed amplifier can be used as a decade-wide electronically tunable oscillator by using the output from the idle drain load as the feedback output and differentially varying the bias of the amplifier MESFETs, taken in pairs. CAD techniques predict that this approach should produce a decade tuning range with seven MESFETs in a nine stage configuration.
Keywords :
Schottky gate field effect transistors; feedback; field effect transistor circuits; microwave oscillators; solid-state microwave circuits; tuning; MESFETs; decade tuning range; distributed amplifier; electronically tunable oscillator; feedback output; idle drain load; microwave oscillator; nine stage configuration;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921048
