We present a rf gas discharge apparatus which provides an atomic frequency reference for laser manipulation of metastable helium. We discuss the biasing and operation of a Colpitts oscillator in which the discharge coil is part of the oscillator circuit. Radiofrequency radiation is reduced by placing the entire oscillator in a metal enclosure.

sinusoidal. Relaxation oscillator generates the triangular, saw tooth and other non-sinusoidal waveforms. Sinusoidal oscillators consist of amplifiers. 2409Sinusoidal and Non-sinusoidal Oscillators 2409 (e) Heterodyne or beat-frequency oscillator (BFO). The active devices (bipolars, FETs or unijunction. To generate the AC voltage, the oscillator circuit will receive the energy from a DC The Osc...

Femtosecond laser-based generation of radio frequency signals has produced astonishing improvements in achievable spectral purity, one of the basic features characterizing the performance of an radio frequency oscillator. Kerr frequency combs hold promise for transforming these lab-scale oscillators to chip-scale level. In this work we demonstrate a miniature 10 GHz radio frequency photonic osc...

We report the operation of a Bloch oscillator. The active medium was a staticvoltage driven, doped GaAs/AlAs superlattice which was electromagnetically coupled to a resonator. The oscillator produced tuneable microwave radiation (frequency ~ 60 GHz; power ~ 0.5 mW; efficiency ~ 4 %). The gain (~ 10 cm) was due to the nonlinearity mediated by miniband electrons. We also present a theory of the o...

In this paper we examine fluctuation and frequency of the governing equation ofoscillator with odd and even nonlinearities without damping and we present a new efficientmodification of the He’s homotopy perturbation method for this equation. We applied standard andmodified homotopy perturbation method and compare them with the numerical solution (NS), also weapplied He’s Energy balance method (...

Title of Document: LOW POWER ADAPTIVE CIRCUITS: AN ADAPTIVE LOG DOMAIN FILTER AND A LOW POWER TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVE OSCILLATOR APPLIED IN SMART DUST RADIO Yiming Zhai, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor Neil Goldsman Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering This dissertation focuses on exploring two low power adaptive circuits. One is an adaptive filter at audio freque...

A new PD (partial discharge) measuring system calibrator is described. The device, battery operated, may be used either grounded or in a floating position, and generates securely mains-synchronized impulses by capacitive coupling. It allows the determination of the scale factor k and resolution time Tr in PD measuring systems, and it fulfils the requirements of International Standard IEC 60270....

We consider separately a spin and an oscillator that are coupled to their environment. After a finite interval of random length, the state of the environment changes, and each change causes a random change in the resonance frequency of the spin or vibrational frequency of the oscillator. Mathematically, the evolution of these frequencies is described by a continuous-time random walk. Physically...

This study proposes using wireless low power thermal sensors for basal-body-temperature detection using frequency modulated telemetry devices. A long-term monitoring sensor requires low-power circuits including a sampling circuit and oscillator. Moreover, temperature compensated technologies are necessary because the modulated frequency might have additional frequency deviations caused by the v...

Absfract—This paper describes and analyzes the circuits which have been used successfully for TRAPATT oscillator studies. The results lead to a better understanding of the TRAPATT oscillator and yield a simple model of the oscillator which is useful for circuit design. The circuit characteristics of ms experimental TRAPATT oscillator are determined from measurements on the circuits and from equ...