High Frequency Communication and Sensing

Contents

Preface

About the Authors

1.  What This Book Is About

2.  Lumped vs. Distributed Elements

2.1  Infinite Transmission Line

2.2  Dispersionless Transmission Line

2.3  Lossless Transmission Line

2.4  Shorted Transmission Line

2.5  Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR)

2.6  Smith Chart

Bibliography

3.  Trigger Mode Distributed Wave Oscillator

3.1  Commonly Used Wave Oscillator Topologies

3.2  Rotary Traveling Wave Oscillator (RTWO)

3.3  Standing Wave Oscillator (SWO)

3.4  TMDWO Topology

3.5  Phase Noise in Traveling Wave Oscillators

3.5.1  Phase Noise in SWO

3.5.1.1  Noise of Transmission Line

3.5.1.2  Tail Transistor Noise

3.5.1.3  Cross-Coupled Pair Noise

3.5.2  Phase Noise in RTWO

3.5.3  Phase Noise in Differential Wave Oscillator (DWO) ...