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High Spectral purity oscillator at 40 GHz: Design using air-dielectric Cavity

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Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, Billy F. Riddle, David A. Howe

Abstract

We describe the design of a low-PM noise 40 GHz oscillator that uses a conventional air-dielectric cavity resonator as a frequency discriminator to clean up the PM noise of a commercial 10 GHz dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) multiplied by four. The main features of this design incorporate (1) unloaded cavity quality factor (Q) of 30,000, (2) high coupling coefficient, (3) large carrier suppression using interferometric signal processing, (4) large operating signal power, approximately 1 Watt (W), and (5) relatively small size.
Proceedings Title
Proc. 2010 IEEE Intl. Freq. Cont. Symp.
Conference Dates
June 1-4, 2010
Conference Location
Newport Beach, CO

Keywords

air-dielectric resonator, multiplier, oscillator, phase modulated noise

Citation

Hati, A. , Nelson, C. , Riddle, B. and Howe, D. (2010), High Spectral purity oscillator at 40 GHz: Design using air-dielectric Cavity, Proc. 2010 IEEE Intl. Freq. Cont. Symp., Newport Beach, CO, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=906039 (Accessed December 7, 2024)

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Created June 2, 2010, Updated February 19, 2017