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A Low Close-in Phase Noise 2.4 GHz RF Hybrid Oscillator using a Frequency Multiplier

  • Moon, Hyunwon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a 2.4 GHz RF oscillator with a very low close-in phase noise performance. This is composed of a low frequency crystal oscillator and three frequency multipliers such as two doubler (X2) and one tripler (X3). The proposed oscillator is implemented as a hybrid type circuit design using a discrete silicon bipolar transistor. The measurement results of the proposed oscillator structure show -115 dBc/Hz close-in phase noise at 10 kHz offset frequency, while only dissipating 5 mW from a 1-V supply. Its close-in phase noise level is very close to that of a low frequency crystal oscillator with little degradation of noise performance. The proposed structure which is consisted of a low frequency crystal oscillator and a frequency multiplier provides new method to implement a low power low close-in phase noise RF local oscillator.

Design and Implementation of Local Oscillator for X-Band Radar (X-대역 레이더용 국부 발진기의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Gi-Rae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.1215-1220
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a local oscillator for X-band radar system is designed and fabricated with GaAs MESFET. GaAs MESFET is good for microwave oscillators because of very low noise figure and high electron mobility. Oscillator design methods in this paper are used the characteristic of negative resistance of active component and impedance matching technique without RF resonator. So, oscillator is designed in compact size because space of RF resonator is reduced and can be applied MMIC technique. Designed oscillator has characteristic of the output power of 2.30 dBm and center frequency of 10.545GHz.

Implementation of RF Oscillator Using Microstrip Split Ring Resonator (SRR) (마이크로스트립 분리형 링 공진기를 이용한 RF 발진기 구현)

  • Kim, Girae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.273-279
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, a novel split ring resonator is proposed for improvement of phase noise characteristics that is weak point of oscillator using planar type microstrip line resonator, and oscillator for 5.8GHz band is designed using proposed split ring resonator. At the fundamental frequency of 5.8GHz, 7.22dBm output power and -83.5 dBc@100kHz phase noise have been measured for oscillator with split ring resonator. The phase noise characteristics of oscillator is improved about 9.7dB compared to one using the general ${\lambda}$/4 microstrip resonator. Because it is possible that varactor diode or lumped capacitor is placed on the gaps of split ring resonator, resonant frequency can be controlled by bias voltage. We can design voltage controlled oscillator using proposed split ring resonator. Thus, due to its simple fabrication process and planar type, it is expected that the technique in this paper can be widely used for low phase noise oscillators for both MIC and MMIC applications.

RF Oscillator Improved Characteristics of Phase Noise Using Ring type DGS (위상잡음을 개선한 링형 DGS 공진기를 이용한 RF 발진기)

  • Kim, Gi-Rae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.1581-1586
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, a novel resonator using ring type DGS is proposed for improvement of phase noise characteristics that is weak point of oscillator using planar type microstrip line resonator, and oscillator for 5.8GHz band is designed using proposed DGS resonator. The ring type DGS resonator is composed of DGS cell etched on ground plane under $50{\Omega}$ microstrip line. At the fundamental frequency of 5.8GHz, 7.6dBm output power and -82.7 dBc@100kHz phase noise have been measured for oscillator with ring type DGS resonator. The phase noise characteristics of oscillator is improved about 9.5dB compared to one using the general ${\lambda}/4$ microstrip resonator. Because it is possible that varactor diode or lumped capacitor is placed on the gaps of ring type DGS, resonant frequency can be controlled by bias voltage. We can design voltage controlled oscillator using proposed ring type DGS resonator. Thus, due to its simple fabrication process and planar type, it is expected that the technique in this paper can be widely used for low phase noise oscillators for both MIC and MMIC applications.

PLL System of a Millimeter-Wave Band Receiver using YIG VCO (YTG VCO를 이용한 밀리미터파 대역 수신기의 PLL 시스템 연구)

  • Lee Changhoon;Chung M. H.;Kim K. D.;Kim H. R.
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.42 no.11
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose the PLL system of the local oscillator system for the millimeter wave band's radio astronomy receiving system. The development of the proposed local oscillator system based on the YIG oscillator VCO with $26.5\~40GHz$ specification. This system consists of the oscillator part including the YIG VCO, the harmonic mixer, and the isolator, the RF processing part including the triplexer, limiter, and RF discrimination processor, and the PLL system including YIG modulator and controller. Based on this configuration, we verify the frequency and power stability of the developed local oscillator system according to some temperature variation. From this test results we confirm the stable output frequency and power characteristic peformance of the developed LO system at constant temperature.

Development of Millimeter-Wave band PLL System using YIG Oscillator (YIG 발진기를 이용한 밀리미터파대역의 PLL 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Chang-Hoon;Kim, K.D.;Chung, M.H.;Kim, H.R.;Han, S.T.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.10b
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    • pp.116-119
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose the PLL system of the local oscillator system for the millimeter wave band's radio astronomy receiving system. The development of the proposed local oscillator system based on the YIG oscillator VCO with 26.5 ${\sim}$ 40GHz specification. This system consists of the oscillator part including the YIG VCO, the harmonic mixer, and the isolator, the RF processing part including the triplexer, limiter, and RF discrimination processor. and the PLL system including YIG modulator and controller. Based on this configuration. we verify the frequency and power stability of the developed local oscillator system according to some temperature variation. From this test results we confirm the stable output frequency and power characteristic performance of the developed La system at constant temperature.

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A Frequency Stable and Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator Using an Optical Phase Shifter and a Phase-shifted Fiber Bragg Grating

  • Wu, Zekun;Zhang, Jiahong;Wang, Yao
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.634-641
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    • 2022
  • A frequency stable and tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) incorporating an optical phase shifter and a phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PS-FBG) is designed and analyzed. The frequency tunability of the OEO can be realized by using a tunable microwave photonic bandpass filter consisting of a PS-FBG, a phase modulator. The optical phase compensation loop is used to compensate for the phase variations of the RF signal from the OEO by adjusting an optical phase shifter. Simulation results demonstrate that the output RF signals of the OEO can be tuned in a frequency range of 118 MHz to 24.092 GHz. When the ambient temperature fluctuates within ±3.9 ℃, the frequency drifts of the output RF signals are less than 68 Hz, the side-mode suppression ratios are more than 69.39 dB, and the phase noise is less than -92.49 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz offset frequency.

A Novel Method to Reduce Local Oscillator Leakage (국부발진기에서의 누설신호의 새로운 제거방식)

  • 이병제;강기조
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2000
  • One of the most important design parameters in a microwave radio transmitting system is to reduce spurious response from the output spectrum of the transmitting system. A Local oscillator (LO) is seldom totally pure and at the least contain some LO harmonic signals. A LO or any oscillator is a transmitter if provided with a suitable radiator, conduction, or leakage path. Where mixer is employed in the output of the LO mixer generated spurs can be increased by RF amplifier. To reduce LO leakage, notch filter or band pass filter has been conventionally used. In this paper, the leakage reduction(LR) signal, which has the same magnitude and the opposite phase with respect to LO leakage signal, is added to the output of mixer of the wireless LAN system. The LO leakage is reduced by 30 dB more than the conventional methods do. The proposed method is potentially suitable for low-cost, reliable, and simple application of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs)

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S-Band Solid State Power Oscillator for RF Heating (RF 가열용 S-대역 반도체 전력 발진기)

  • Jang, Kwang-Ho;Kim, Bo-Ki;Choi, Jin-Joo;Choi, Heung-Sik;Sim, Sung-Hun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents a design study of a solid state power oscillator to replace the conventional magnetron. The operational conditions of a single-stage 300 W LDMOS power amplifier were fully characterized. The power module consisted of two amplifiers connected in parallel. A delay-line feedback loop was designed for self-oscillation. A phase shifter was inserted in the delay-line feedback loop for adjusting the round-trip phase. Experiments performed using the power oscillator showed an output power of 800 W and a DC-RF conversion efficiency of 58 % at 2.327 GHz. The measured results were in good agreement with those predicted by numerical simulations.

Design and Implementation of X-Band Oscillator Using Compact Hairpin Resonator (소형화된 헤어핀 공진기를 이용한 X-대역 발진기의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Gi-Rae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.1131-1137
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, oscillator with compact hairpin resonator is used to design the local oscillator of X-band radar system. The proposed hairpin resonator is minimized by increasing capacitance of line end of conventional one. By this method, size can be minimized about 40% compared with the conventional resonator and also can improve phase noise characteristic. The result of oscillator using proposed hairpin resonator is measured in oscillating frequency of 9.05 GHz, output power of 2.47 dBm, and phase noise of -101.4 dBc/Hz. The fabricated oscillator in this paper can minimize design and it's planar structure makes it easy to design MMIC.