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A quasioptically stabilized resonant-tunneling-diode oscillator for the millimeter-and submillimeter-wave regions

Brown et al., 2002

Document ID
2397361485950672197
Author
Brown E
Parker C
Molvar K
Stephan K
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques

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A semiconfocal open-cavity resonator has been used to stabilize a resonant-tunneling-diode waveguide oscillator at frequencies near 100 GHz. The high quality factor of the open cavity resulted in a linewidth of approximately 10 kHz at 10 dB the peak, which is about 100 times …
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