Abstract

A microwave receiver using a single-circuit backward-wave amplifier as a combination radio-frequency ampliier and homodyne local oscillator is described. The amplitler tube is operated at a value of beam current just above that required to maintain oscillation. It is shown that in this way, the high gain and narrow bandwidth of the single-circuit backward-wave amplifier may be utilized in an electronically tunable microwave receiver. The resultant sensitivity is 10 to 15 db worse than that obtainable from a good superheterodyne. The loss in sensitivity is due entirely to the high noise figure of the backward-wave amplifier, which can theoretically be reduced to a value comparable with that of a supereterodyne. The advantages of the receiver are its simplicity and its lack of image diffculties. Rejection of off-frequency signals is such that they are attenuated by at least 50 db.

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