afaik86
Newbie level 3
Hello!
This is my very first post, but I was lurking for a lot of time!
I need your advice on a 10Mhz to 20 MHz doubler & amplifier.
I have a 10 MHz OCXO 7dBm with a very low phase noise (-160 dBc @ 1kHz) and I have to feed its signal to a PLL, that requires above 150 V/us slew rate.
I have two problems:
1) what schottly diode to use. I know that Avago has very low flicker diodes, but unfortunately Avago has been bought and some wise businessman shutted down everything.
2) what NPN BJT to use to achieve an additive phase noise of -165...-170 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz (20 MHz carrier).
You can find attached the circuit. I used a simple frequency doubler using Infineon BAT15 diodes, are they good? Actually, the doubler might be replacd with AMK-2-13, which has better harmonic rejection. I used a MMBT2222A NPN for the amplification, is it good? I attached also a simulation, Ic=38 mA. (*) If I parallelize two of them to lower rbb? Maybe a RF bjt is better?
I used another set of BAT15 to limit the output voltage swing. The output is differential, going to the PLL using 150ohm differential impedance tracks (distance is a few inches on the PCB...)
Do you have some advice to achieve low flicker noise? Thank you very much!
(*) one strange issue that I have is that sometime the amplifier don't work, it start to work if I tweak the supply voltage or change the capacitor values by a few pF. Maybe it has two stable operating points?
This is my very first post, but I was lurking for a lot of time!
I need your advice on a 10Mhz to 20 MHz doubler & amplifier.
I have a 10 MHz OCXO 7dBm with a very low phase noise (-160 dBc @ 1kHz) and I have to feed its signal to a PLL, that requires above 150 V/us slew rate.
I have two problems:
1) what schottly diode to use. I know that Avago has very low flicker diodes, but unfortunately Avago has been bought and some wise businessman shutted down everything.
2) what NPN BJT to use to achieve an additive phase noise of -165...-170 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz (20 MHz carrier).
You can find attached the circuit. I used a simple frequency doubler using Infineon BAT15 diodes, are they good? Actually, the doubler might be replacd with AMK-2-13, which has better harmonic rejection. I used a MMBT2222A NPN for the amplification, is it good? I attached also a simulation, Ic=38 mA. (*) If I parallelize two of them to lower rbb? Maybe a RF bjt is better?
I used another set of BAT15 to limit the output voltage swing. The output is differential, going to the PLL using 150ohm differential impedance tracks (distance is a few inches on the PCB...)
Do you have some advice to achieve low flicker noise? Thank you very much!
(*) one strange issue that I have is that sometime the amplifier don't work, it start to work if I tweak the supply voltage or change the capacitor values by a few pF. Maybe it has two stable operating points?
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