Varactor-Tuned Oscillators Technical Data
VTO-8000 Series
Features
• 600 MHz to 10.
5 GHz Coverage • Fast Tuning • +7 to +13 dBm Output Power • ± 1.
5 dB Output Flatness • Hermetic Thin-film Construction
Description
HP VTO-8000 Series oscillators use a silicon
transistor chip as a negative resistance oscillator.
The oscillation frequency is determined by a silicon abrupt varactor diode acting as a voltage-variable capacitor in a thin-film microstripline resonator.
This provides extremely fast tuning speed, limited primarily by the internal impedance of the user-supplied voltage driver.
Fast settling is another feature of the HP VTO-8000 Series oscillators.
Typical settling times for the VTO-...