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

2014-10-19 Thread Bruce Hunter via time-nuts
The interesting discussions on this site provoked me to try the experiment with two, fairly identical, Gunn K-band oscillators operating at 24.125 GHz. Individual power outputs were +18.5 and +19.5 dBm or 0.071W and 0.089W, respectively. By adding E/H tuners between the oscillator and precisio

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

2014-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 Oct 2014 20:18, "paul swed" wrote: > > David the locking makes sense but the other numbers do not make sense. > Combined best case would be +3 DBm also you say the current on the diodes > goes down. More power for less power in is not adding up. I went to a users meeting yesterday at Keysigh

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

2014-10-11 Thread John C. Roos via time-nuts
--- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:00:28 -0700 From: To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] locking oscillators - an increase in power and/or stability ? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Came across this. Might be relevant. Cheers, Corby http://n

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

2014-10-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 10/11/14, 9:00 AM, cdel...@juno.com wrote: Came across this. Might be relevant. Cheers, Corby http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930008868.pdf a) Greater than 100% power combining efficiencies have been realized as predicted. This implies that the output power from the com

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

2014-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Oct 2014 16:25, "Didier Juges" wrote: > If I could get 1200W by combining two 300W amplifiers, I would now be retired and very wealthy indeed. > > Unfortunately, there is no free lunch and unless somehow the Gun oscillators were delivering more power when connected to the magic T (maybe beca

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

2014-10-11 Thread cdelect
Came across this. Might be relevant. Cheers, Corby http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930008868.pdf a) Greater than 100% power combining efficiencies have been realized as predicted. This implies that the output power from the combiner is typically greater than the sum of the p

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

2014-10-11 Thread Didier Juges
That would only work if the impedance of the source was much lower than the impedance of the load. That is extremely unlikely in high power systems (at least in well functioning high power systems), but I heard that modern LNAs do not always provide the best noise figure when matched, so maybe t

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

2014-10-11 Thread Didier Juges
I have been doing phase combining of power amplifiers for almost 30 years, professionally. If I could get 1200W by combining two 300W amplifiers, I would now be retired and very wealthy indeed. Unfortunately, there is no free lunch and unless somehow the Gun oscillators were delivering more po

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 Oct 2014 23:52, "Bob Camp" wrote: > > HI > > In the case of a magic Tee or a normal power splitter (both passive devices), the current will not be limited by the combiner or the source. With a proper combiner, the source will always be running into 50 ohms. You will indeed get 6 db in the in

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

2014-10-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
Corby, On 10/08/2014 09:07 PM, cdel...@juno.com wrote: Hi, I came across this phenomena when transmitting with two 5KW transmitters via separate parabolic antennas to a satellite. If the phase of the TXs was correct the received signal at the satellite was 6db hotter! I thought at the time th

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 9 Oct 2014 00:26, "paul swed" wrote: > > Depends on your detector is it a Voltage or power. 3DBM or 6 DBV are the > same. > Paul > WB8TSL You are mistaken. A 3 dB increase in signal level is a 3 dB increase - there's no need to say if power or voltage. The formula for computing an increase i

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

2014-10-08 Thread paul swed
Depends on your detector is it a Voltage or power. 3DBM or 6 DBV are the same. Paul WB8TSL On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I came across this phenomena when transmitting with two 5KW transmitters > via separate parabolic antennas to a satellite. > > If the phase of the TXs was c

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

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Most Gunn oscillators have very basic internals. Isolation between the “oscillator” and the “output” is rarely very good. Injection locking one is quite easy. It’s often done as the final step in a microwave LO multiplier chain. Bob On Oct 8, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Bruce Hunter via time-nuts

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

2014-10-08 Thread Bruce Hunter via time-nuts
This is certainly an interesting phenomenon. A couple of possible explanations come to mind. First, if the pair of Gunn sources are not really locked and are oscillating at two different frequencies, the resulting voltage envelope would peak at about double the voltage of either oscillator.

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

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Camp
HI In the case of a magic Tee or a normal power splitter (both passive devices), the current will not be limited by the combiner or the source. With a proper combiner, the source will always be running into 50 ohms. You will indeed get 6 db in the in phase sum case. Bob On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:

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

2014-10-08 Thread Graham
Dr. Dave: Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFc4wriBvE Then you can Google "injection locked oscillators" --- Graham / KE9H == On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > There's a discussion on the "ukmicro

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dave Brown
David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] locking oscillators - an increase in power and/or stability ? On 8 Oct 2014 20:26, "Bob Camp" wrote: Hi

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 Oct 2014 20:15, wrote: > > Hi, > > I came across this phenomena when transmitting with two 5KW transmitters > via separate parabolic antennas to a satellite. > > If the phase of the TXs was correct the received signal at the satellite > was 6db hotter! I can explain that easy enough. 1) Two

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 Oct 2014 20:26, "Bob Camp" wrote: > > Hi > > It’s called injection locking. The two oscillators (or what ever) lock up at exactly the same frequency and some arbitrary phase. Depending on the amplitude and phase at the sum point, the result can be anything from +6 db to zero power. Anything t

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 8 Oct 2014 20:18, "paul swed" wrote: > > David the locking makes sense but the other numbers do not make sense. > Combined best case would be +3 DBm also you say the current on the diodes > goes down. More power for less power in is not adding up. I agree. However, the fact that the current go

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

2014-10-08 Thread Bob Camp
Hi It’s called injection locking. The two oscillators (or what ever) lock up at exactly the same frequency and some arbitrary phase. Depending on the amplitude and phase at the sum point, the result can be anything from +6 db to zero power. Anything that oscillates can injection lock if given t

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

2014-10-08 Thread paul swed
David the locking makes sense but the other numbers do not make sense. Combined best case would be +3 DBm also you say the current on the diodes goes down. More power for less power in is not adding up. Though the right question is what are they using as power detectors? When the 2 are combined the

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

2014-10-08 Thread cdelect
Hi, I came across this phenomena when transmitting with two 5KW transmitters via separate parabolic antennas to a satellite. If the phase of the TXs was correct the received signal at the satellite was 6db hotter! I thought at the time that it was due to the power adding in the voltage mode. Fo

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

2014-10-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
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.