A K-band oscillator locked to the first water resonance

Author

Leontakianakos, Achilles N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Eletron. Eng., Inst. of Technol., Brunei, Brunei

Volume

40

Issue

2

fYear

1992

fDate

2/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

195

Abstract

A Gunn diode oscillator has been locked to the rotational absorption line of water at 22235.170 MHz. The water in vapor form was obtained from atmospheric air. The air was held in a vacuum chamber which was inserted in a Fabry-Perot open semiconfocal resonator. A sinusoidal electric field, the Stark field, was impressed upon the gas in the cavity which is coupled to the Gunn oscillator, thus modulating the water vapor absorption of microwave energy. The second harmonic of the Stark Field was used to lock the Gunn oscillator. Working with the water spectral line (16₁₆-5₂₃) at 22.235 GHz, a frequency stability on the order of ±50 kHz was achieved

Keywords

Gunn oscillators; cavity resonators; frequency stability; molecular rotation; water; 22.23517 GHz; Fabry-Perot open semiconfocal resonator; Gunn diode oscillator; H₂O molecule resonance; H₂O vapor; K-band oscillator; SHF; Stark field; atmospheric air; first water resonance; frequency stability; rotational absorption line; sinusoidal electric field; Diodes; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Fabry-Perot; Frequency modulation; Gunn devices; K-band; Microwave oscillators; Mirrors; Resonance; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.120089

Filename

120089