1. A solid-mounted resonator-oscillator-based 4.596 GHz frequency synthesis.
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Boudot, R., Li, M. D., Giordano, V., Rolland, N., Rolland, P. A., and Vincent, P.
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ELECTRIC resonators ,VOLTAGE-controlled oscillators ,ENERGY consumption ,FREQUENCY synthesizers ,ELECTRONIC noise ,ATOMIC clocks ,MINIATURE electronic equipment - Abstract
This paper describes a 4.596 GHz frequency synthesis based on a 2.1 GHz solid mounted resonator (SMR) voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The SMR oscillator presents a chip size lower than 2 mm2, a power consumption of 18.2 mW, and exhibits a phase noise of -89 dBc/Hz and -131 dBc/Hz at 2 kHz and 100 kHz offset frequencies, respectively. The VCO temperature-frequency dependence is measured to be -14 ppm/°C over a range of -20 ○C to 60 ○C. From this source, a low noise frequency synthesizer is developed to generate a 4.596 GHz signal (half of the Cs atom hyperfine transition frequency) with a phase noise of -81 dBc/Hz and -120 dBc/Hz at 2 kHz and 100 kHz from the carrier. The frequency synthesis output is used as a local oscillator in a Cs vapor microcell-based compact atomic clock. Preliminary results are reported and discussed. To the authors knowledge, this is the first development of a SMR-oscillator-based frequency synthesizer for miniature atomic clocks applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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