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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
May. 04, 2005
Kenneth W. Brown, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (US);
James R. Gallivan, Pomona, CA (US);
Kenneth W. Brown, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (US);
James R. Gallivan, Pomona, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An oscillator. In the illustrative embodiment, the oscillator includes an ortho-mode feed; a reflective amplifier array adapted to be illuminated by the feed with an input wavefront with a first polarization and to return thereto an amplified wavefront with a second polarization orthogonal to the first wavefront; and a partially reflective plate disposed between the feed and the amplifier. The inventive oscillator provides a Fabry-Perot cavity between the feed and the plate. In the illustrative embodiment, the plate is a polarized plate. The plate may have surfaces with dissimilar polarizations and/or curvatures. The amplifier may be phase locked by an ortho-mode converter or other arrangement.