title: High-frequency overtone TCXO based on mixing of dual crystal oscillators.
abstract: To implement a high-stability and high-frequency overtone temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) conveniently, an improved design of the novel overtone TCXO is described in this paper. A 120-MHz TCXO based on mixing of dual crystal oscillators is implemented. It utilizes a 100-MHz AT-cut 5th-overtone crystal oscillator mixed with a 20-MHz AT-cut voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO). The 120-MHz mixed product is filtered to produce the output signal. The total frequency deviation of 20-MHz and 100-MHz crystal oscillators is compensated by adjusting the output frequency of the 20-MHz oscillator to produce the stable 120-MHz output frequency. In this work, verifying experimental results of the compensation are presented. The stability of the experimental 120-MHz overtone TCXO with microprocessor temperature compensation achieves +/-2 X 10(-7) over the temperature range from -30 degrees C to +70 degrees C. A phase noise level of -133 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset has been initially measured for the prototype TCXO. The experimental result demonstrates this approach can conveniently implement the high-frequency overtone temperature compensation with a relatively high stability, and it is available for a wider frequency range as well.
authors.affiliation: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Cheng'du, Sichuan, China. xianhehuang@uestc.edu.cn
authors.forename: Xianhe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors