Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-stage sub-THz frequency generator incorporating injection locking
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Application No.: US16256231Application Date: 2019-01-24
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Publication No.: US10862423B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Amirhossein Ansari Bozorg , Robert Bogdan Staszewski
- Applicant: University College Dublin
- Applicant Address: IE Dublin
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
- Current Assignee Address: IE Dublin
- Agency: Zaretsky Group PC
- Agent Howard Zaretsky
- Main IPC: H03B5/06
- IPC: H03B5/06 ; H03L7/099 ; H03B5/12 ; H04L27/227 ; H03L1/02 ; H03L7/24

Abstract:
A novel and useful mm-wave frequency generation system is disclosed that takes advantage of injection locking techniques to generate an output oscillator signal with improved phase noise (PN) performance and power efficiency. Low frequency and high frequency DCOs as well as a pulse generator make up the oscillator system. A fundamental low frequency (e.g., 30 GHz) signal and its sufficiently strong higher (e.g., fifth) harmonic (e.g., 150 GHz) are generated simultaneously in a single oscillator system. The second high frequency DCO having normally poor phase noise is injected locked to the first low frequency DCO having good phase noise. Due to injection locking, the high frequency output signal generated by the second DCO exhibits good phase noise since the phase noise of the second DCO tracks that of the first DCO.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190229675A1 Multi-Stage Sub-THz Frequency Generator Incorporating Injection Locking Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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