Sources of intensive noise signals of millimeter wave band

The new method of the CW intensive noise signals excitation in millimeter wave band has been studied. With this aim in mind the O-type Backward Wave Oscillators, operating in chaotic oscillation regime, are proposed to use. The noise sources, based onBWO, have a high efficiency, universal power spectrums and feasibility of electronic tuning of the noise signal frequency in the relative range of 4–10%. Low voltage noise sources, operating in the bands needed over the range from 30to 60GHz, make possible output power of 8 – 25W and 4W respectively and 3 –dB power spectrum width more than 300M H z. Application of the suitableBWO offers to excite the noise signals in decimeter and centimeter ranges too.