Applications of Interferometric Signal Processing to Phase-Noise Reduction in Microwave Oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 10 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1537-1545

  Ivanov, Eugene N ^a   Tobar, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effective noise temperature; Frequency discriminator; Microwave interferometer; Phase and amplitude fluctuations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000924515     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.721162     Document Type: Article

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