Abstract:
This invention relates to a planar oscillator (9, 109) having a dielectric cavity (25, 125) and which is operative under microwave frequencies, said oscillator consisting of a dielectric material base (10, 110) one surface of which has, superposed thereto, a continuous layer (11, 111) of a conductive material which coats portions of said face; the remaining portions (10A, 10B, 110A', 110A", 110B) of the surface have, superposed thereto, strips of a conductive material (12, 13, 14, 112, 113, 114) which are separate from each other and are electrically connected to an active element (19,119), a dielectric cavity (25, 125) adhering to the surface away of the dielectric material base (10, 110), the layer of conductive material (11, 111) providing a grounding plane and the strips of conductive material (12, 13, 14, 112, 113, 114) providing transmission and output lines for the oscillator concerned.
Abstract:
A very simple oscillator circuit, using a FET pair 1, with RF coupled, DC isolated gates, selectively operates at two widely separated microwave frequencies. The circuit is integrable. In a sample embodiment, the oscillations are switched between 20 GHz and 12.5 GHz.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic radiation reflection amplifier capable of amplifying cw or pulsed signals has a pair of cw oscillators (20, 22) operated under injection locking conditions. Diversion of oscillator power to a separate signal path during the off time of the input pulse is achieved through purely passive means; no active control devices are utilized. The device can be implemented for amplification of microwave, millimeter wave or optical signals. The amplifier comprises a 180 DEG hybrid coupler (10), a matched pair of cw oscillator modules (20, 22), a waveguide discontinuity (36), a waveguide termination (26), and an optional signal input element. For a magic-tee hybrid coupler, the cw oscillator modules are mounted on the ports of the symmetrically positioned waveguide arms (16, 17) and the waveguide discontinuity (36) is located within either the sum arm or difference waveguide arm intermediate its ends. The waveguide termination is located at the port (14) of that arm, and the port (11) of the other non-symmetric arm of the magic-tee becomes the input/output port.
Abstract:
A circuit comprising a dielectric resonator wherein the dielectric resonator is positioned within a chamber, the chamber being formed by a housing with a wall having selectable or predeterminable electromagnetic characteristics, and wherein the position of the dielectric resonator relative to the wall or walls, and the dimensions of the chamber, providing a controlled, and preferably uniform electrical and magnetic fied environment for the dielectric resonator.
Abstract:
A local oscillator noise rejection circuit is described which has a resistance between the output of an MES FET/HEMT and ground. This resistance has the effect of introducing a self-biasing arrangement to the oscillator circuit which means that when there is any increase in current through the MES FET/HEMT device, the voltage drop across the resistance also increases. Since the gate is tied to ground via a low resistance (51 OMEGA ) this leads to an increased negative gate to source voltage which causes the device to "pinch-off" slightly which, in turn, gives a reduction in the current level through the device. This arrangement therefore has the effect of reducing any current surges within the device and produces an improvement in phase noise. In a preferred arrangement a 30 Ohm resistor is located between the source of the FET/HEMT and ground, the resistor being located in series within the printed circuit inductor and the output line. With the aforementioned modified circuit, an improvement in the phase noise performance has been measured from the standard circuit which gave a figure of -64 dBc. at 10 KHz. After modification using the above mentioned circuit a figure of -76 dBc. at 10 KHz. was obtained which is approximately a 16 times improvement.
Abstract:
A shielded microstrip assembly (100) includes a substrate (102) having a first ground plane surface (106) and a second surface (206) which includes a transmission line (216). A plurality of solder balls (104) provide electrical interconnection for the ground plane and for the terminals (210) and (212) of transmission line (216). The microstrip assembly (100) is then inverted and attached using solder balls (104) to a carrier (302). The inverted microstrip assembly (100) of the present invention provides for improved shielding, while maintaining the high Q and other advantages associated with a microstrip.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a 1.6 to 3 GHz oscillator with a voltage-controlled resonator unit (10) in an oscillator stage (20) plus a series-connected buffer stage (30). This oscillator is designed with an open microstrip resonator (S1) which is shorter than lambda/4 in combination with an open feedback-type microstrip (S2) in the emitter branch of a common collector configuration in a non-overdriven oscillator transistor (T1). The resonator (S1) is coupled in particular with parasitic resonant circuits by a variable-capacitance diode (D1). A particularly simple and robust circuit with high output power can thus be designed for this difficult frequency range. A circuit can be built using SMD techniques to fit in a standard chassis without the need for any special adjustment measures, in particular in volume manufacture.
Abstract:
A voltage controlled oscillator the free-running frequency of which can be easily adjusted, even if its oscillation frequency is 2 GHz or more, by adding a trimming stub (3) for adjusting the free-running frequency to a microstrip line resonator (4) in parallel with it.