Title :
A chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator
Author :
Ricketts, David S. ; Ham, Donhee
Author_Institution :
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
This paper introduces a chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator, which self-generates a periodic train of electrical soliton pulses. This circuit is made possible by combining a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) with a unique amplifier that tames the instability-prone soliton dynamics in a closed-loop NLTL. This chip-scale prototype produces a pulse width of 293ps and demonstrates the feasibility for future widths close to 1ps, adding a new direction in pulse-based electronics
Keywords :
oscillators; pulse generators; solitons; transmission lines; chip-scale electrical soliton modelocked oscillator; electrical soliton pulses; mode locking; nonlinear transmission line; pulse-based electronics; Attenuation; Metrology; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Solitons; Time domain analysis; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0079-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696227
