[time-nuts] locking oscillators - an increase in power and/or stability ?

Graham gh78731 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 14:42:38 EDT 2014


Dr. Dave:

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFc4wriBvE



Then you can Google "injection locked oscillators"

--- Graham / KE9H

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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) <
drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:

> There's a discussion on the "ukmicrowave" list about combining the
> power from two 10 GHz Gunn oscillators with a magic T.  One might
> expect to get nearly double the power if the two oscillators are
> combined. What people are observing is getting more than double the
> power. To quote from
>
> http://www.bobatkins.com/radio/10GHz_gunn_power_combiner.html
>
> "Individually, the two oscillators produced 64 and 70 mW,
> respectively, but produced a combined power output of 235 mW. "
>
> Another one
>
> "The stability of the combined oscillators was found to be higher than
> that of the individual oscillators. "
>
> It is hardly surprising the two lock together in frequency.
>
> I wonder if people see similar things with pendulums in clocks? I
> can't think of any logical explanation for this, but it seems to be
> more than an April fools joke.
>
> What is interesting is someone who just tried it says the current in
> the diodes goes down about a mA when combined, so the input power to
> the devices go down very slightly. Typically these things run at a few
> hundred mA, so 1 mA is likely to be less than 1 %.
>
>
>
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