• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.184-186
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• 2005

The effect of power supply noise on the phase noise of a ring oscillator is studied. The power supply noise source in series with DC power supply voltage is applied to a 3 stage CMOS ring oscillator. The phase noise due to the power supply noise is modeled by the narrow band phase modulation. The model is verified by the fact that the spectrum of output of ring oscillator has two side bands at the frequencies offset from the frequency of the ring oscillator by the frequency of the power supply noise source. Simulations at several different frequency of the power supply noise reveals that the ring oscillator acts as a low pass filter to the power supply noise. This study, as a result, shows that the phase noise generated by the power supply noise is inversely proportional to the frequency offset from the carrier frequency.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.233-236
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• 2005

Phase noise in a phase-locked-loop (PLL) is unwanted and unavoidable. It is a main concern in oscillation system especially PLL. The phase noise is derived in term of power spectrum density by using a reliable phase noise model. There are four noise sources being considered in this paper, which are generated by reference oscillator, voltage controlled oscillator, filter, and main divider. The major concern for this paper is the noise from the filter. Two types of second order low pass filter are used in the PLL system. Applying the mathematical phase noise model, the output noises are compared. The total noise from the passive filter is lower than the active filter at the offset frequency range between 1 Hz to 33 kHz.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.694-697
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• 2016

Up-converted phase noise, which is induced by the low-frequency relative intensity noise (RIN) of a laser through AM-PM conversion within a photodetector (PD), is first measured here by means of a cross-correlation method. Our proposed measurement system can isolate the RIN-induced phase noise from noise contributions of other components, such as amplifiers, modulators, and mixers. In particular, shot noise and thermal noise generated from the PD are also suppressed by this method, so that standalone characteristics of the RIN-induced phase noise can be obtained. Experimental results clearly show the quantitative relationship between the RIN-induced phase noise and the incident optical power of the PD. Our findings indicate that the least RIN-induced phase noise appeared at the saturation point of the PD, which is about -162 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.62-66
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• 2010

본 논문은 높은 Q 특성을 갖는 이중 H자 형태의 메타 전자파구조의 공진기를 적용한 발진기를 제안하였다. 제안된 발진기는 고성능의 주파수합성부에 적용하기 위한 것으로 저위상잡음 및 높은 출력 전력을 요구한다. 특히 이중 H자 형태의 메타 전자파구조(DHM)는 전기장의 커플링을 강하게 하여 발진 주파수에서 높은 Q 값을 갖도록 설계되었다. 이러한 특성을 통해 우수한 위상잡음 특성을 얻을 수 있다. 이중 H자 형태의 메타 전자파구조를 이용한 발진기는 레이더 시스템의 주파수 합성부에 적용하기 위한 X 대역 내 발진을 형성하였으며 출력 전력은 4.33 dBm, 위상잡음은 100 kHz 옵셋에서 -108 dBc를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2006

This paper describes fully integrated low phase noise MMIC voltage controlled oscillators(VCOs). The Asymmetrical Inductance Tank VCO(AIT-VCO), which optimize the shortcoming of the previous tank's inductance optimization approach, has lower phase noise performance due to achieving higher equivalent parallel resistance and Q value of the tank. This VCO features an output power signal in the range of - 11.53 dBm and a tuning range of 261 MHz or 15.2 % of its operating frequency. This VCO exhibits a phase noise of - 117.3 dBc/Hz at a frequency offset of 100 kHz from carrier. A phase noise reduction of 15 dB was achieved relative to only one spiral inductor. The AIT-VCO achieved low very low figure of merit of -184.6 dBc/Hz. The die area, including buffers and bond pads, is $0.9{\times}0.9mm^2$.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.673-680
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• 2017

In the proposed paper, we designed low noise frequency synthesizer with compact size for Multi-Band. The proposed frequency synthesizer consists of fundamental frequency band(2 GHz) and harmonic frequency band(4 GHz). To improve the phase noise and spurious level of frequency synthesizer, we analyze how the configuration of frequency synthesizer affect the phase noise and design the multi-band's structure. The implemented frequency synthesizer reduce both the phase noise and spurious level. The phase noise is -92.17 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz frequency offset in 2 GHz and -90.50 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz frequency offset in 4 GHz. All spurious signals including fundamental frequency are suppressed at least 20 dBc than the second harmonic frequency.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.94-99
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• 1997

발진기의 위상잡음에 영향윤 주는 요인은 여러 가지가 있다. 그러나 발진기의 위상잡음은 주로 캐리어(carrier)와 l/f의 특성을 잦는 DC 근처 저주파 잡음과의 혼합으로 발생되므로, 저주파 플리커 잡음에 의해 지배된다. 본 논문에서는 능동 바이어스 회로로 구현된 저주파 궤환회로를 이용하여 플리커 잡음의 영향을 최소화함으로써 발진기의 위상잡음을 줄이는 기법을 제안하고, DBS 수신기에 사용 가능한 DRO를 제작하였다. 제작된 DRO의 위상잡음을 측정한 갤과 10 kHz 옵셋 주파수에서 약 -92 dBc/Hz로 제안된 방볍이 상당히 효과적임을 확인 하였다

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.204-207
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• 2005

In this paper, PBG structure and feedforward circuit has been used to suppress the phase noise of the oscillator. Microstrip line resonator have low Q, but we can obtain high LO power by feedforward circuit and improve the resonator Q by the PBG, simultaneously. The proposed oscillator which uses PBG and feedforward circuit shows 0${\~}$20 dB phase noise reduction compared to the conventional oscillator. We have obtained -115.8 dBc of phase noise at 100 kHz offset from 2.4 GHz center.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.168-174
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• 2004

A bandwidth-enhanced and phase noise-improved differential LC-tank VCO is proposed in this paper. By connecting the varactors to the bases of the cross-coupled transistors of the proposed LC-tank VCO, its input negative resistance has been widened. Also, the feedback capacitor Cc in the cross-coupling path of the proposed LC-tank VCO attenuates the output common-mode level modulated by the low-frequency noise because the modulated common-mode level jitters the varactor bias point and degrades phase noise. Compared with the fabricated conventional LC-tank VCO, the proposed LC-tank VCO demonstrates $200\;\%$ enhancement in tuning range, and 6 - dB improvement in phase noise at 6 MHz offset frequency from 5.4-GHz carrier. We achieved the phase noise of - 106 dBc/Hz at 6 MHz offset, and $10\;\%$ tuning range from the proposed LC-tank VCO. The proposed LC-tank VCO consumes 12 mA at 2.5 V supply voltage.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.235-238
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• 2011

In this paper, a novel low phase noise voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using metamaterial structure and rat race coupler is presented for reducing the phase noise without the reduction of the frequency tuning range. The metamaterial structure has been realized by microstrip square open loop double split ring resonator (SRR). The rat race coupler shows slightly higher transmission compared to a Wilkinson combiner and is, therefore, used instead to improve the performances of VCO. By providing these unique modifications, the proposed push-push VCO has a phase noise of -126.30~-124.83 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz in the tuning range of 5.672~5.800 GHz.