Calibration of an RF/Microwave Phase Noise Meter with a Photonic Delay Line

In Line Flow-meter Calibration

Phase meter calibration at NBS

National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, MD 20899 To provide a phase meter calibration service, a phase angle calibration standard has been developed at NBS. This standard is a signal. generator with two sinusoidal outputs and uses direct digital synthesis to generate the signals. The phase angle between the two sinusoids is determined by the input parameters in the calculation of the sets of...

Noise and Noise Meter Kay Hammer Noise and Noise Meter

In order to make use of analysis and low noise design techniques one requires a knowledge of the noise performance of circuit elements, circuits and complete systems in order to determine whether they meet the specifications or not. Also to judge the effort of noise decreasing procedures in circuits one need to be able to measure the noise level. If high precision noise measurement is required ...

Electrically tunable photonic true-time-delay line.

We present a new application of the acousto-optic superlattice modulation of a fiber Bragg grating based on the dynamic phase and group delay properties of this fiber-optic component. We demonstrate a tunable photonic true-time-delay line based on the group delay change of the light reflected from the grating sidebands. The delay is electrically tuned by adjusting the voltage applied to a piezo...

A Comparison of Two Delay Line Discriminator Implementations for Low Cost Phase Noise Measurement

This paper focuses on low cost production testing of the far-out phase noise of PLL ICs using the delay line discriminator method. It describes two different delay line discriminator (DLD) implementations for phase noise measurements at large frequency offsets from the carrier. The calibration method using an FM calibration signal is described in detail, both mathematically and graphically. The...