Microwave source

• Gunn oscillator
• Frequency 8,0..9,9GHz, ultra stable and maintenance-free
• Safety first – low-power emission and measurement only emission
• Overvoltage protection

Receiver

• X-Band-LNC, frequency range 8…10GHz
• High accuracy measurements with sensitivity up to -75dBm
• Real-time frequency measurement of 8…10GHz signals
• Internal gain approx. 16dB

• 1 experiment card X-Band-measurement interface: operational frequency 8,0-9,9GHz, logarithmic detection, dynamic range up to 50dB, resolution 16bit
• High quality waveguides:

– Gunn oscillator with high precision frequency tuning micrometer screw

– isolator

– variable attenuator

– slotted line

– line displacement record

– 3-screw transformer

– waveguide terminator

– waveguide adapter

– waveguide short

– horn aerial 10dB

• Stands and connecting cables
• Aluminum storage case
• CD-ROM with Labsoft-Browser and course software

• Characteristics of electromagnetic waves
• Gunn oscillator
• LNC receiver
• Recording of current-voltage characteristics
• Transmission line theory and line quantities of unit length
• Wave propagation in waveguides
• Standing waves, shorted waveguide, reflection and matching
• SWR
• Power loss and thermal load
• Measurement of wave distribution along the waveguide with the slotted measurement line
• Propagation of TE and TM waves
• Waveguide dimensions and operating frequency
• Dielectrics in waveguides
• Course duration 4.5 h approx.