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Design and development of Ka-band carrier generator for IRS applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2014

Vabya Kumar Pandit*
Affiliation:
Centre for Emerging Technologies, Jain University, Bangalore, India. Phone: +91 8951164439
Chitra Ramamurthy
Affiliation:
ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India
Sourabh Basu
Affiliation:
ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India
Deepak V. Ingale
Affiliation:
Centre for Emerging Technologies, Jain University, Bangalore, India. Phone: +91 8951164439
*
Corresponding author: V. K. Pandit Email: [email protected]

Abstract

A Ka-band carrier generator using phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer is presented in this paper. The design uses integer-N PLL chip PE83336 as the important hardware support. The key idea of generating Ka-band frequency signal with low-phase noise is to generate a high-quality X-band frequency signal using PLL frequency synthesizer and employ a frequency multiplier to deliver the high-frequency output at the desired frequency band. Experimental measurements of the frequency synthesizer demonstrate the excellent performance, which is achieved with the Ka-band output with a frequency resolution of 5.7 MHz and phase noise better than −70 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz.

Type
Industrial and Engineering Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2014 

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