Microwave???to???millimeter-wave synthesis chain phase noise performance

Author

Bara-Maillet, Romain ; Parker, Stephen R. ; Nand, Nitin R. ; Le Floch, Jean-Michel ; Tobar, Michael E.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Volume

62

Issue

10

fYear

2015

fDate

10/1/2015 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1895

Lastpage

1900

Abstract

We report on the phase noise measurement of a millimeter-wave synthesis chain developed for a continuous wave (CW) source exhibiting high frequency stability. We quantify the performance of each multiplication stage in terms of phase spectral purity. From the initial cryogenic sapphire oscillator generating 12.97 GHz, a total multiplication factor of eight is applied through two stages to reach a frequency of 103.75 GHz. We find that the chain performance is primarily limited by the phase noise of the initial frequency doubler.

Keywords

cryogenics; frequency multipliers; frequency stability; microwave oscillators; millimetre wave oscillators; phase noise; sapphire; CW source; continuous wave source; frequency 103.75 GHz; frequency 12.97 GHz; frequency doubler; frequency stability; initial cryogenic sapphire oscillator; microwave-to-millimeter-wave synthesis chain phase noise performance; multiplication factor; phase noise measurement; phase spectral purity; Frequency measurement; Frequency synthesizers; Millimeter wave measurements; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-3010

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TUFFC.2015.007076

Filename

7296778