On the noise properties of injection-locked oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1523-1537

  Shumakher, Evgeny ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Injection locked amplifiers; Injection locked oscillators; Microwave oscillators; Opto electronic devices; Phase noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TIMING JITTER; WHITE NOISE;

INJECT-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; INJECTIO-LOCKED AMPLIFIERS; INJECTION LOCKING; PHASE NOISE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 2542425578     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827035     Document Type: Article

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