DocumentCode
1884904
Title
An 8.6GHz 42ps pulse-width electrical mode-locked oscillator
Author
Chen, M.W. ; Ricketts, David S.
Author_Institution
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
7-11 Feb. 2010
Firstpage
500
Lastpage
501
Abstract
A fully integrated electrical mode-locked oscillator is presented. The oscillator, which produces a periodic train of narrow pulses, is comprised of an on-chip transmission line and a lumped amplifier. The oscillator is fabricated in 0.13 ¿m SiGe BiCMOS and produces pulses with 42 ps pulse widths at a repetition rate of 8.6 GHz.
Keywords
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; field effect MMIC; microwave amplifiers; microwave oscillators; transmission lines; BiCMOS; SiGe; frequency 8.6 GHz; lumped amplifier; on-chip transmission line; pulse-width electrical mode-locked oscillator; size 0.13 mum; time 42 ps; Absorption; Attenuation; Coplanar transmission lines; Impedance; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steady-state; Transmission lines;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
0193-6530
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6033-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISSCC.2010.5433866
Filename
5433866
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