Low phase noiseradio frequency (RF) sources generated by voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) are described. Optical modulators driven by a VCO may be used to generate optical side-bands to cw lasers. The spectral extent of said side-bands can be increased via frequency broadening in highly nonlinear waveguides. Free running mode locked low phase noise comb oscillators can be used as reference oscillators to generate beat signals between those side-bands and individual comb modes at distal spectral regions, thereby creating an error signal used to reduce the phase noise of VCOs and the generation of low phase noise RF signals. VCO phase noise may be reduced by using free-running modelocked comb lasers phase locked to external frequency references, by omitting a reference comb and using a nonlinear interferometer for generating an error signal, or by locking a slave comb to the modulation frequency of an intra-cavity modulator driven by the VCO.
The invention discloses a Fourier domain mode-locked photoelectric oscillator. The Fourier domain mode-locked photoelectric oscillator comprises a laser source, a phase modulator, a light notching filter, a photoelectric detector, a power amplifier and a power divider; the laser source, the phase modulator, the light notching filter and the photoelectric detector form a sweeping frequency microwavephoton filter; a transmission band of the sweeping frequency microwavephoton filter is decided by the difference of the laser source and the light notching filter notching location corresponding wavelength, the sweeping frequency of the microwavephoton filter transmission band is realized through the sweeping frequency of the laser source or the light notching filter, and the change of the filter transmission band and the signal are matched with the in the time delay for transmitting a circle in a photoelectric oscillator loop; the Fourier domain mode-locking is realized, and the bandwidth-adjustable chirp microwave signal can be output.
The invention relates to a frequency synthesissystem for enhancing spectrum purity of a direct digital frequency synthesizer, which comprises a crystal oscillator, a phase-locked loop module (PLL), a direct digital frequency synthesis module (DDS), a filter module and a central processing unit, wherein the system uses the phase-locked loop module (PLL) to provide a variable clock for the direct digital frequency synthesis module (DDS), and the clock frequency of the variable clock provided by the phase-locked loop module (PLL) is an integral multiple of the frequency of the output signal. By changing the clock frequency of the direct digital frequency synthesizer, the noise generated in the quantization process is minimized, thereby improving the stray indexes of the output signal and enhancing the spectrum purity of the output signal.
A method and apparatus for providing a dual-loop phase lock loop (PLL) for a radio-frequency (RF) receiver is provided. The dual-loop PLL may include coarse tuning circuitry and fine tuning circuitry. The coarse turning circuitry and fine tuning circuitry may be arranged in parallel. Both of the coarse tuning circuitry and fine tuning circuitry provide respective tuning signals to a voltage-controlled oscillator (e.g., a varactor tuned VCO). The coarse tuning circuitry and the fine tuning circuitry may provide the respective tuning signals simultaneously. In addition, coarse and fine tuning circuitry may be formed monolithically with other elements of the dual-loop PLL so as to provide a highly-integratable having a wide frequency lock range and high sensitivity.
A multiloop PLL circuit comprising:a first PLL loop comprising a first VCO, a first phase detector having a first input receiving a reference frequency (Fref) and a second input receiving the output of a first programmable divider, which input receives the signal generated by the first VCO and a first loop filter connected between said first phase detector and said first VCO;at least one auxiliary PLL loop comprising a second VCO, a second phase detector, a second (R1) and a third (N1) programmable dividers, and a second loop filtera main loop for generating a desired output frequency Fout comprising a third VCO, a third phasedetector, a fourth (Rn) and a fifth (Nn) programmable divider, a main loop filter and a mixeradditional possible auxiliary PLL loop each comprising a forth VCO, a forth phase detector, a sixth (Ri) and a seventh (Ni) programmable divider, a third auxiliary loop filter and a mixerwhereby the desired output frequency Fout is generated in accordance with the relation:Fout=(N1 / R1+ . . . +Nn / Rn)*Fcro where N1 and R1 are the dividing values of the first auxiliary loop and Ni and Ri with i=2 . . . n−1 being the dividing ratios of any possible further auxiliary loop; and Fcro is the frequency generated by VCO,whereby the multiloop circuit is configured with dividing values which optimizes a cost function F.
There are provided a highly sensitive force / mass detection method and device using a phase-locked loop, in which a phase noise of the mechanical element can be reduced using the phase-locked loop, by synchronizing a vibration signal of a mechanical element to an oscillation signal from a local oscillator which has a low phase noise and a high purity property. In the highly sensitive force / mass detection device using the phase-locked loop, an oscillation circuit of a mechanical vibrator 1 including a phase adjuster 10, a binarization circuit 5 for detecting a phase of an oscillation signal of the oscillation circuit, a local oscillator 7 having a low phase noise and a high purity property, a phase comparator 6 for comparing the phase of the oscillation signal of the mechanical vibrator 1 with a phase of an oscillation signal from the local oscillator 7, and a loop filter 8 connected to the phase comparator 7, are provided. An output of the phase comparator 6 is fed back to the phase adjuster 10 through the loop filter 8, and a phase noise of the mechanical vibrator 1 is reduced.
The invention discloses a push-push type oscillator based on a microstrip differential band-pass filter. The push-push type oscillator comprises a rectangular dielectric substrate (1), a metal grounding layer (2) attached to the lower surface of the dielectric substrate (1), a differential filter (3) arranged on the upper surface of the dielectric substrate (1), a power combiner (4), a first amplifier input and output matching circuit (5) and a second amplifier input and output matching circuit (6). And the power combiner (4) is connected with the differential filter (3) through the first andsecond amplifier input and output matching circuits (5, 6). The push-push type oscillator based on microstrip differential band-pass filter is low in phase noise, high in fundamental wave suppressionlevel, high in quality factor and good in selectivity.
The invention provides a microwavesignal source and a method for producing a microwavesignal. The microwavesignal source comprises a highly-stable crystal oscillator, a signal output assembly, a first-stage mixing smoothingassembly and a second-stage mixing smoothingassembly, wherein the highly-stable crystal oscillator is used for producing multiple ways of frequency reference signals, the signal output assembly used for producing a frequency modulated signal, an X-band lock phase signal and an L-band dot frequency signal respectively based on the multiple ways of frequency reference signals, the first-stage mixing smoothing assembly used for mixing the frequency modulated signal with the X-band lock phase signal and outputting an X-band frequency modulated signal, and the second-stage mixing smoothing assembly used for mixing the L-band dot frequency signal with the X-band frequency modulated signal and outputting an X-band dot frequency modulated signal. According to the microwave signal source and the method for producing the microwave signal, the requirements of fixation of frequency offset of frequency modulation deviation under multipledot frequency and low phase noise can be met in production practice.
The invention belongs to microwave technology and relates to an X-band ultra-high-speed frequency hopping source. The X-band ultra-high-speed frequency hopping source of the present invention includes a DDS module, a local oscillator phase-locked loop and a frequency-mixing frequency multiplication chain. Wherein, the DDS module is composed of a DDS and a frequency reference phase-locked loop, and the frequency mixing and multiplication chain includes a first band-pass filter, a first frequency multiplier, a second band-pass filter, a mixer, The third bandpass filter, the second frequency multiplier and the fourth bandpass filter, the frequency reference phase-locked loop is connected with the DDS to form a DDS module, and the DDS module is connected to the first bandpass of the frequency mixing and multiplication link After passing through the first frequency multiplier and the second band-pass filter in sequence, the filter is connected with the mixer. The local oscillator phase-locked loop is also connected to a mixer connected to a third bandpass filter, a second frequency multiplier and a fourth bandpass filter connected in sequence. The invention can realize nanosecond-level frequency hopping, good harmonic spuriousness, low phase noise, and adjustable X-band output frequency range.