WMI: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LOW-NOISE FREQUENCY SOURCES

Date & Time: Monday, June 13; 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: Long Beach Convention Center, Room 202C

Topics & Speakers: 

• Optical Techniques for Low-Noise Microwave Frequency Sources, Dr. Lute Maleki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• VCO Design and Phase Noise Modeling , Prof. Ali Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology
• Recent Advances in Low-Noise Monolithic Signal Generation Techniques Above 10GHz, Dr. Friedrich Lenk, FBH, Berlin
• Low-Noise CMOS Direct Digital Synthesizers, Jim Camp, Analog Devices
• Recent Developments in PLL Technologies, Dr. Ronald Reedy, Peregrine Semiconductor   

Organizers:  

G. Lyons, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 

P. Khanna, Phase Matrix   

Sponsors:   

MTT-16: Microwave Systems

MTT-22: Signal Generation & Frequency Conversion     

The past few years have seen several significant new developments in the creation and understanding of low-noise frequency sources.  The purpose of this workshop is to review these new developments and extrapolate trends within these new development areas.  An effort will be made to evaluate the impact of these new developments on future microwave systems and applications.  The workshop will have a tutorial flavor and the focus will be on providing a thorough understanding of each of the new developments within the broad context of the signal generation field.  New understanding comes from the application of linear time varying (LTV) theory to the analysis of low-noise sources.  Progress continues to be made in generating low-noise signals at high frequency (X-band), while new optical techniques challenge traditional low-phase-noise microwave sources.  Direct digital synthesis (DDS) is now among the standard low-noise techniques with the advent of advanced CMOS DDS chips.  Finally, sigma-delta fractional-N PLL techniques, Ku-band CMOS prescalars, and integrated VCO/PLLs have given additional flexibility to low-noise sources.