High-Q frequency stable dual-mode whispering gallery sapphire resonator

Author

Tobar, M.E. ; Ivanov, E.N. ; Hartnett, J.G. ; Cros, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

20-24 May 2001

Firstpage

205

Abstract

The design and experimental test of a dual mode high-Q Whispering Gallery (WG) sapphire resonator is presented. Dual mode operation is realized by designing the WGE/sub 7,0,0/ and the WGH/sub 9,0,0/ mode near 9 GHz and separated in frequency by approximately 80 MHz. Design was achieved by implementing finite element software, which is shown to agree very well with measurement, Due to the anisotropy of sapphire, WGH and WGE modes have different temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF). We show that the difference frequency can be used to stabilize the temperature, resulting in a temperature limited frequency stability of better than one part in 10/sup 13/. This type of resonator has the potential to improve substantially the close to the carrier phase noise in current state-of-the-art low noise oscillators.

Keywords

Q-factor; cavity resonators; finite element analysis; frequency stability; phase noise; sapphire; 9 GHz; WGE/sub 7,0,0/ mode; WGH/sub 9,0,0/ mode; carrier phase noise; dual-mode whispering gallery sapphire resonator; finite element software; high-Q resonator; state-of-the-art low noise oscillators; temperature coefficient of frequency; temperature limited frequency stability; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Copper; Finite element methods; Fluctuations; Microwave oscillators; Phase noise; Q factor; Resonant frequency; Stability; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6538-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2001.966872

Filename

966872