• DocumentCode
    3086241
  • Title

    Phase-locking of grid oscillators

  • Author

    Wenzhang Wang ; Wilson Pearson, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    7-12 June 1998
  • Firstpage
    1879
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we report results of the first successful phase locking, to our knowledge, of a grid oscillator. A voltage controlled grid with a center frequency of 4.7 GHz and with 300 MHz electric tuning range was locked to a frequency synthesizer by way of a phase-locked loop (PLL). The loop was designed with 10 kHz bandwidth and employs three operational amplifiers. Phase noise was improved to match the specification of the synthesizer locking source.
  • Keywords
    circuit noise; circuit tuning; frequency synthesizers; microwave oscillators; phase locked loops; phase noise; voltage-controlled oscillators; 10 kHz; 4.7 GHz; PLL; electric tuning range; frequency synthesizer; grid oscillators; operational amplifiers; phase locking; phase noise improvement; phase-locked loop; quasi-optical oscillators; synthesizer locking source; voltage controlled grid; Bandwidth; Circuits; Frequency synthesizers; Injection-locked oscillators; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Tuning; Varactors; Voltage control; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1998 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4471-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1998.700857
  • Filename
    700857