Low Phase Noise VCO Using Spiral Resonator

Spiral 공진기를 이용한 저위상 잡음 전압 제어 발진기

  • Jwa, Dong-Woo (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Seo, Chul-Hun (Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Soongsil University)
  • 좌동우 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 서철헌 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Published : 2008.07.25

Abstract

In this paper, low phase noise VCO using novel compact microstrip spiral resonator is proposed. A spiral resonator has super compact dimension, low insertion losses in the passband and high level of rejection in the stopband with sharp cutoff and a large coupling coefficient value, which makes a high Q value, and has reduced the phase noise. To increase the tuning range of VCO, varactor diode has been connected at the tunable negative resistance in VCO. This VCO has presented the oscillation frequency of $5.686{\sim}5.841GHz$, harmonics -29.83 dBc and phase noise of $-115.16{\sim}-115.17dBc/Hz$ at the offset frequency of 100 KHz.

본 논문에서는 위상잡음 특성을 개선하기 위하여 spiral 공진기를 이용한 전압제어 발진기를 제안하였다. Spiral 공진기는 작은 면적, 저지대역에서 날카로운 스커트 특성과 낮은 삽입손실, 큰 결합 계수 값을 가지고 있고, 이로 인해 높은 Q 값을 가지며 전압 제어 발진기의 위상 잡음을 감소시킨다. 공진기의 Q 값이 높아짐에 따라 좁아지는 주파수 조절 범위를 높이기 위하여 버랙터 다이오드를 조절 가능한 부성저항에 연결하였다. 전압 제어발진기는 $5.686{\sim}5.841GHz$에서 발진이 일어났고, 출력은 11.83 dBm, 하모닉 특성은 -29.83 dBc, 위상 잡음 특성은 100 KHz offset에서 $-115.16{\sim}115.17dBc/Hz$이다.

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