David G. Andersen wrote:
This is great, John - thanks for designing it.
Isn't that MAX477 convenient? :) The only drawback to it, from my
view, is that it's got too much bandwidth from all those weird "video"
applications (who wants video when you can play with 10Mhz GPSDOs?),
leading to the possibility of harmonics on the output. And conveniently,
the TADD-1 seems to have a 10Mhz bandpass filter... nice.
Curious about one thing - you provided spots for an input bandpass
filter, but nothing on the outputs. How do the output harmonics look
when amplifiying a clean 10Mhz input signal?
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-Dave
Hi Dave --
Thanks for the comments! The gain bandwidth of the MAX477 is a problem,
and we had to add series decoupling resistors to stomp out a parasitic
at about 350MHz.
The harmonic performance isn't too bad as long as you don't overdrive
the input so that it clips. The assembly manual has some details on my
harmonic testing results, but I didn't have a 5 or 10MHz bandpass filter
handy to clean up my source and as a result I had to compare the
harmonic content of the source with that of the output. They were
within a couple of dB. However, that's suspect because the system gain
shows a tilt toward high frequencies, so the source harmonics were being
amplified as well. In fact, I suspect that in my test the gain tilt
masks any harmonic contribution of the amp. I plan to do a more proper
harmonic test but haven't gotten the bits together yet to do it.
The bandpass filter is really intended for something like cleaning up a
square wave input. I have an Efratom "brick" Rb that has a 10MHz square
wave output, and I envisioned using the filter to get a nicer sinewave
out of it. The filter provides about 35dB suppression at the
subharmonic as well as 2nd and higher harmonics.
John
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