A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Noise Behavior of Subharmonically Injection Locked Local Oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 895-902

  Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Zhou, Xuesong ^a   Daryoush, Afshin S ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES - ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

LOCAL OSCILLATORS; OPTICALLY CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS; PHASE NOISE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

OSCILLATORS, SOLID STATE;

EID: 0026869537     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.137395     Document Type: Article

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