VTO-8360

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-8090 are <200␣ kHz within one microsecond while the VTO-8950 settles to <2␣ MHz within two microseconds referenced to ten milliseconds. The VTO-8850 combines a bipolar transistor oscillator with a GaAs FET buffer stage. This GaAs FET buffer isolates the oscillator from variations in load impedance for low frequency pulling, allows the oscillator to run lighty-loaded for low phase noise content and provides +10 dBm of minimum output power over the full tuning range. The VTO-8000 Series varactor-tuned oscillators are packaged in TO-8 transistor cans for simple installation in a conventional 50-ohm microstripline PC board. They are ideal for most compact, lightweight commercial and military equipment designs. Test fixturing is also available for lab bench test applications. See the “Test Fix...