An MMIC V-band phase-locked oscillator using a GaAs MMIC sampling phase detector

Author

Kanda, Atsushi ; Nakagawa, Tadao ; Hirota, Tetsuo ; Okazaki, Hiroshi ; Nakamae, Masaru

Author_Institution

NTT Wireless Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

45

Issue

5

fYear

1997

fDate

5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

659

Lastpage

665

Abstract

A V-band full-monolithic phase-locked oscillator (PLO) has been developed. All the circuits are integrated into three monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) chips. One is a highly integrated multifunction MMIC for 15-GHz voltage-controlled oscillation and 15-30-GHz frequency doubling. The second is for 30-60-GHz frequency doubling. The third is a sampling phase detector (SPD) chip, which operates up to 20 GHz and can be driven at 0-dBm power. Each circuit is greatly reduced in size by using a uniplanar structure; the oscillator area is only 5.5 mm² and the SPD area is 3.0 mm². The PLO exhibits output power of 3.5 dBm with single-sideband (SSB) phase noise in the phase-locked state of -64 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset from 60.0 GHz in spite of the low Q full-monolithic oscillator circuitry

Keywords

MESFET integrated circuits; MMIC frequency convertors; MMIC oscillators; field effect MIMIC; field effect MMIC; frequency multipliers; gallium arsenide; millimetre wave frequency convertors; millimetre wave oscillators; phase locked oscillators; signal detection; signal sampling; voltage-controlled oscillators; 15 to 60 GHz; EHF; GaAs; MIMIC; SHF; V-band; frequency doubling; multifunction MMIC; phase-locked oscillator; sampling phase detector; uniplanar structure; voltage-controlled oscillation; Frequency; Gallium arsenide; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave oscillators; Monolithic integrated circuits; Phase detection; Sampling methods; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.575582

Filename

575582