High Performance W-band VCO for FMCW Applications

In this paper, we reported on a high performance waveguide VCO(voltage controlled oscillator) for FMCW applications. The waveguide VCO consists of a GaAs Gunn diode, a varactor diode, and two bias posts with low pass filter(LPF). The cavity is designed for fundamental mode at 47 GHz and operated at second harmonic of 94 GHz center frequency. The developed waveguide VCO has 1.095 GHz bandwidth, 590 MHz linearity with 1.69% and output power from 14.86 to 15.93 dBm. The phase noise is under -95 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.