Application Note: Application And Design Of Gunn Oscillators

By HXI, LLC

Gunn diodes have been commercially successful as microwave oscillators since the late 1960's. They are employed wherever a stable low cost microwave source is needed. Gunn oscillators have found many slots throughout the industry including communications: as mixer local oscillators, pumps for parametric amplifiers, TX and RX oscillators for radio communications, radar sources - including police radar, commercial, and military, wireless LANs and also as detectors: commercial sensors for detecting: velocity, direction, proximity, or level sensing alarms. They have now found new markets in vehicular collision avoidance and intelligent cruise control.