Title : 
Reduced spurious signals in an injection-locked oscillator by using combine technique
         
        
            Author : 
Siripon, Nipapon ; Underhill, Mike ; Robertson, Ian D.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Electr. Eng. Dept., Chiang Mai Univ., Thailand
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
An injection-locked oscillator technique has been used in order to improve noise in the oscillating signal. A single-ended injection-locked oscillator in subharmonic mode provides the unwanted signals due to the nonlinear properties. These unwanted signals can be suppressed by using power combiner technique. A cascaded oscillator using power combining technique was tested. As a result, it is found that the spurious signals caused by the injection locking phenomenon in subharmonic mode reduce by more than 25 dB.
         
        
            Keywords : 
injection locked oscillators; phase noise; power combiners; cascaded oscillator; injection-locked oscillator; noise; oscillating signal; power combiner; spurious signals; subharmonic mode; Circuits; Directional couplers; Frequency synchronization; Impedance; Injection-locked oscillators; Microwave oscillators; Negative feedback; Phase noise; Physics; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Microwave Conference, 2003. 33rd European
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-58053-834-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EUMC.2003.1262939