This new edition provides a comprehensive review of the original text with the addition of updated text and illustrations. The book is divided into six chapters beginning with Chapter 1 on loop fundamentals, which provides detailed insight into settling time and other characteristics of the loop. Chapter 2 outlines noise and spurious responses of the loops. The linear approach of oscillator phase noise is very detailed and walks the reader through all the important steps and contributions, both inside and outside the loop. In Chapter 3 the authors look at special loops. Here, the DDS technique--explained in detail--should prove most interesting to the reader. Chapter 4 provides a detailed overview of loop components. Chapter 5 provides in-depth details about multiloop synthesizers and Chapter 6 is dedicated to practical synthesizer examples, which combine the techniques outlined in previous chapters.
About the Author: ULRICH L. ROHDE, PhD, is President of Compact Software, Inc., in Paterson, New Jersey, a partner of Rohde & Schwarz in Munich, Germany, and Chairman of the Board of Synergy Microwave Corporation in Paterson. Formerly a professor of electrical engineering at George Washington University and the University of Florida, Dr. Rohde, as president of Communication Consulting Corporation, has also consulted on a number of communication projects in industry and government. He is the author of the Wiley title Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design (1998).
ENRICO RUBIOLA, PhD, is a professor at the Université de Franche Comté and a researcher with the Department of Time and Frequency of the CNRS FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon, France, and an associated researcher at INRiM, the Italian institute of primary metrology in Torino. In 2012, Enrico founded the Oscillator IMP project, a platform for the measurement of short-term frequency stability and AM/PM noise of oscillators and related components.
JERRY WHITAKER is the Vice President for Standards Development of the Advanced Television Systems Committee. He also serves as Secretary Technology Group on Next Generation Broadcast Television, and is closely involved in work relating to educational programs. Mr. Whitaker is a Fellow the Society of Broadcast Engineers and a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He has served as a Board member and Vice President of the Society of Broadcast Engineers.
