A HIGHLY SENSITIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE QUASI-OPTICAL FM NOISE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

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作者
SMITH, GM
LESURF, JCG
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy University of St. Andrew’s, North Haugh, Fife, KY, 16 9SS, St. Andrews
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10.1109/22.106569
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A highly sensitive, tunable, low loss quasi-optical millimeter wave FM noise measurement system has been constructed, with state of the art performance. It utilizes a novel matched, easily tuneable quasi-optical cavity in reflection, to act as a carrier suppression filter. This can operate with matched cavity Q's of several hundred thousand with almost zero insertion loss to provide an extremely high discriminator slope at low power levels. The FM noise measurement system can allow direct measurement of phase locked sources at low input power levels over ultra-wideband frequency ranges.
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页码:2229 / 2236
页数:8
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