Influence of the drive-signal resonant overtone on subharmonic injection-locking characteristics

Author

Calandra, Enrico F. ; Sommariva, Antonino M.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Palermo Univ., Italy

Volume

6

fYear

1994

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1994

Firstpage

209

Abstract

The influence of a small but nonzero resonant overtone of the drive-signal on the static and dynamic characteristics of subharmonic injection-locked oscillators is investigated by means of a perturbation based phasor-domain approach. Both theoretical and computer simulation results show that, if certain conditions on the circuit parameters occur, even a very small amplitude overtone (e.g., -60 dBc) significantly affects the system behaviour. This fact may explain the discrepancies sometimes observed between experiments and predictions based on previous analysis methods

Keywords

active networks; injection locked oscillators; negative resistance devices; nonlinear network analysis; amplitude overtone; circuit parameters; drive-signal resonant overtone; dynamic characteristics; injection-locked oscillators; perturbation based phasor-domain approach; static characteristics; subharmonic injection-locking characteristics; Bandwidth; Circuits; Coherence; Computer simulation; Couplings; Differential equations; Frequency synchronization; Harmonic analysis; Injection-locked oscillators; Resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1915-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409563

Filename

409563