Iterative Phase Noise Suppression for Full-Duplex Communication Systems

Oscillator phase noise is one of the bottlenecks that limits the self-interference(SI)cancellation capability of full-duplex systems.In this paper,we propose a method for the suppression of common phase error(CPE)and intercarrier interference(ICI)induced by the phase noise in full-duplex orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)systems.First,we regard the effect of CPE as a portion of the SI channel and perform estimation,reconstruction and elimination in the time domain.Then,the ICI signal is estimated and suppressed in the frequency domain.Additionally,by analysing the performance of proposed algorithm,we further develop an iterative mechanism to reduce the parameter estimation error and improve SI cancellation capability.Simulation results show that the proposed method has a significant SI cancellation capability improvement over the traditional SI cancellation schemes.

A low-phase-noise and low-power crystal oscillator for RF tuner

A 37. 5 MHz differential complementary metal oxide semiconductor （CMOS） crystal oscillator with low power and low phase noise for the radio frequency tuner of digital radio broadcasting digital radio mondiale （DRAM） and digital audio broadcasting （DAB） systems is realized and characterized. The conventional cross-coupled n-type metal oxide semiconductor （NMOS） transistors are replaced by p-type metal oxide semiconductor （PMOS） transistors to decrease the phase noise in the core part of the crystal oscillator. A symmetry structure of the current mirror is adopted to increase the stability of direct current. The amplitude detecting circuit made up of a single- stage CMOS operational transconductance amplifier （OTA） and a simple amplitude detector is used to improve the current accuracy of the output signals. The chip is fabricated in a 0. 18- pxn CMOS process, and the total chip size is 0. 35 mm x 0. 3 mm. Under a supply voltage of 1.8 V, the measured power consumption is 3.6 mW including the output buffer for 50 testing loads. The proposed crystal oscillator exhibits a low phase noise of - 134. 7 dBc/Hz at 1-kHz offset from the center frequency of 37. 5 MHz.

Design of 2.5GHz Low Phase Noise CMOS LC-VCO

A 2 5GHz fully integrated LC VCO is fabricated in a standard single poly 4 metal 0 35μm digital CMOS process,using a complementary cross coupled topology for lowering power dissipation and reducing the effect of 1/ f noise.An on chip LC filtering technique is used to lower the high frequency noise.Accumulation varactors are used to widen frequency tuning.The measured tuning range is 23 percent.A single hexadecagon symmetric on chip spiral is used with grounded shield pattern to reduce the chip area and maximize the quality factor.A phase noise of -118dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset is measured.The power dissipation is 4mA at V DD =3 3V.

Wideband CMOS LC VCO design and phase noise analysis

A wideband LC cross-coupled voltage controlled oscillator（VCO） is designed and realized with standard 0. 18 μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor（CMOS） technology. Band switching capacitors are adopted to extend the frequency tuning range, and the phase noise is optimized in the design procedure. The functional relationships between the phase noise and the transistors＇ width-length ratios are deduced by a linear time variant （LTV） model. The theoretical optimized parameter value ranges are determined. To simplify the calculation, the working region is split into several sub-ranges according to transistor working conditions. Thus, a lot of integrations are avoided, and the phase noise function upon the design variables can be expressed as simple proportion formats. Test results show that the DC current is 8.8 mA under a voltage supply of 1.8 V; the frequency range is 1.17 to 1.90 GHz, and the phase noise reaches - 83 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz offset from the carrier. The chip size is 1. 2 mm × 0. 9 mm.

Design of a 2.5GHz Low Phase-Noise LC-VCO in 0.35μm SiGe BiCMOS

This paper introduces a 2.5GHz low phase-noise cross-coupled LC-VCO realized in 0.35μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The conventional definition of a VCO operating regime is revised from a new perspective. Analysis shows the importance of inductance and bias current selection for oscillator phase noise optimization. Differences between CMOS and BJT VCO design strategy are then analyzed and the conclusions are summarized. In this implementation, bonding wires form the resonator to improve the phase noise performance. The VCO is then integrated with other components to form a PLL frequency synthesizer with a loop bandwidth of 30kHz. Measurement shows a phase noise of - 95dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset and - 116dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset from a 2.5GHz carrier. At a supply voltage of 3V, the VCO core consumes 8mA. To our knowledge,this is the first differential cross-coupled VCO in SiGe BiCMOS technology in China.

Low Phase Noise Quadrature Oscillators Using New Injection Locked Technique

A low phase noise quadrature oscillator using the new injection locked technique is proposed. The incident signal is directly injected into the common-source connection of the sub-harmonic oscillator. In principle, the phase noise performance of the quadrature output is better than the sub-harmonic oscillator itself. The quadrature oscillator is implemented in a 0. 25μm CMOS process. Measurements show the proposed oscillator could achieve a phase noise of --130dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset from 1. 13GHz carrier while only drawing an 8.0mA current from the 2.5V power supply.

A wideband low-phase-noise LC VCO for DRM/DAB frequency synthesizer

The wideband CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator（VCO）with low phase noise and low power consumption is presented for a DRM/DAB（digital radio mondiale and digital audio broadcasting）frequency synthesizer.In order to obtain a wide band and a large tuning range,a parallel switched capacitor bank is added in the LC tank.The proposed VCO is implemented in SMIC 0.18-μm RF CMOS technology and the chip area is 750 μm×560 μm,including the test buffer circuit and the pads.Measured results show that the tuning range is 44.6%;i.e.,the frequency turning range is from 2.27 to 3.57 GHz.The measured phase noise is-122.22 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset from the carrier.The maximum power consumption of the core part is 6.16 mW at a 1.8 V power supply.

Effect of phase noise in an OFDM/OQAM system

The performance of an OFDM/OQAM system under phase noise is analyzed. The analysis helps to direct the design of low cost tuners through specifying the required phase noise characteristics. Discrete time formulation of OFDM/OQAM is first derived with the square root raised cosine (SRRC) filter as the pulse-shaping filter. Then the effect of multiplicative phase noise is equivalently represented as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), the variance of which is given analytically. We can observe that the same result as OFDM/QAM system is derived. Lastly, all the analytical results are verified by the bit error rate (BER) degradation through Monte Carlo simulation.

Stimulated Brillouin scattering-induced phase noise in an interferometric fiber sensing system

Stimulated Brillouin scattering-induced phase noise is harmful to interferometric fiber sensing systems. The localized fluctuating model is used to study the intensity noise caused by the stimulated Brillouin scattering in a single-mode fiber. The phase noise structure is analyzed for an interferometric fiber sensing system, and an unbalanced Michelson interferometer with an optical path difference of 1 m, as well as the phase-generated carrier technique, is used to measure the phase noise. It is found that the phase noise is small when the input power is below the stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold, increases dramatically at first and then gradually becomes flat when the input power is above the threshold, which is similar to the variation in relative intensity noise. It can be inferred that the increase in phase noise is mainly due to the broadening of the laser linewidth caused by stimulated Brillouin scattering, which is verified through linewidth measurements in the absence and presence of the stimulated Brillouin scattering.

Cognitive anti-jamming receiver under phase noise in high frequency bands

This paper investigates the jamming sensing performance of the simultaneous transmit and receive based cognitive anti-jamming(SCAJ) receiver impaired by phase noise in local oscillators(LO) over fading channels. Firstly, energy detection(ED)based on the jamming to noise ratio(JNR) of the high frequency bands SCAJ receiver with phase noise under different channels is analyzed. Then, the probabilities of jamming detection and false alarm in closed-form for the SCAJ receiver are derived. Finally,the modified Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound(BCRB) of jamming sensing for the SCAJ receiver is presented. Simulation results show that the performance degradation of the SCAJ system due to phase noise is more severe than that due to the channel fading in the circumstances where the signal bandwidth(BW) is kept a constant. Moreover, the signal BW has an effect on the phase noise in LO, and the jamming detection probability of the wideband SCAJ receiver with lower phase noise outperforms that of the narrowband receiver using the same center frequency. Furthermore,an accurate phase noise estimation and compensation scheme can improve the jamming detection capability of the SCAJ receiver in high frequency bands and approach to the upper bound.

Joint MAP channel estimation and data detection for OFDM in presence of phase noise from free running and phase locked loop oscillator

This paper addresses a computationally compact and statistically optimal joint Maximum a Posteriori(MAP)algorithm for channel estimation and data detection in the presence of Phase Noise(PHN)in iterative Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM)receivers used for high speed and high spectral efficient wireless communication systems.The MAP cost function for joint estimation and detection is derived and optimized further with the proposed cyclic gradient descent optimization algorithm.The proposed joint estimation and detection algorithm relaxes the restriction of small PHN assumptions and utilizes the prior statistical knowledge of PHN spectral components to produce a statistically optimal solution.The frequency-domain estimation of Channel Transfer Function(CTF)in frequency selective fading makes the method simpler,compared with the estimation of Channel Impulse Response(CIR)in the time domain.Two different time-varying PHN models,produced by Free Running Oscillator(FRO)and Phase-Locked Loop(PLL)oscillator,are presented and compared for performance difference with proposed OFDM receiver.Simulation results for joint MAP channel estimation are compared with Cramer-Rao Lower Bound(CRLB),and the simulation results for joint MAP data detection are compared with“NO PHN"performance to demonstrate that the proposed joint MAP estimation and detection algorithm achieve near-optimum performance even under multipath channel fading.

Impact of Phase Noise on TDMS Based Calibration for Spaceborne Multi-Beam Antennas

For spaceborne multi-beam antennas(MBAs), time division multiplexed switching(TDMS) based calibration receiver can reduce implementation costs effectively and is very suitable for large-scale applications. However, in practice, random phase noise imposed by noisy local oscillators can cause significant performance degradation in TDMS-based calibration systems. Characterization of phase noise effects is therefore crucial for practical applications. In this paper, we analyze the impact of phase noise on the calibration performance for a MBA system. Specifically, we derive the relationship between the probability of correct amplitude/phase estimation and various practical factors involving the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR), the standard deviation of phase noise, the given tolerance region, and the length of the spreading code. The results provide high efficiency for evaluating the calibration performance of the MBAs based on TDMS, especially for precisely anticipating the impact of phase noise. Finally, the accuracy of the derived results is assessed by simulations in different scenarios.

Dual transponder ranging performance in the presence of oscillator phase noise

A dual transponder carrier ranging method can be used to measure inter-satellite distance with high precision by combining the reference and the to-and-fro measurements. Based on the differential techniques, the oscillator phase noise, which is the main error source for microwave ranging systems, can be significantly attenuated. Further, since the range measurements are derived on the same satellite, the dual transponder ranging system does not need a time tagging system to synchronize the two satellites. In view of the lack of oscillator noise analysis on the dual transponder ranging model, a comprehensive analysis of oscillator noise effects on ranging accuracy is provided. First, the dual transponder ranging system is described with emphasis on the detailed analysis of oscillator noise on measurement precision. Then, a high-fidelity numerical simulation approach based on the power spectrum density of an actual ultra-stable oscillator is carried out in both frequency domain and time domain to support the presented theoretical analysis. The simulation results under different conditions are consistent with the proposed concepts, which makes the results reliable. Besides, the results demonstrate that a high level of accuracy can be achieved by using this oscillator noise cancelation-oriented ranging method.

A 20MHz Low Phase-Noise 0.35μm CMOS Crystal Oscillator

The design procedure of a CMOS process integrating Colpitts cr ystal oscillator is described in detail by using the tools of Matlab and advanced design system (ADS). The small-signal analysis is performed both in the viewpoint of negative resistance and positive feedback. The analysis of condition for reliable start-up of oscillation and design guides for low phase noise is introduced. The measured phase noise is ?172dBc/Hz@10 kHz and the power dissipation is 0.36 mW at power supply 3V.

Microwave Oscillator Phase Noise Requirement for TD-SCDMA Wireless Communication Systems

In time division synchronous code division multiple access （TD-SCDMA） wireless communication systems, QPSK or 8PSK has been employed to support high data rate services and high efficiency in available bandwidth. The performance of such systems is affected by the phase noise of the microwave local oscillator. The phase noise model of synthesizer and the RF transceiver model for the phase noise effect are proposed for applications of TD-SCDMA systems. The relationship between the power spectral density （PSD） and root mean square （RMS） phase error is given. Then, the error vector magnitude （EVM） performance is analytically evaluated by using the single side band （SSB） phase noise. Theoretical results show agreement with those obtained by measurement data and therefore can be used to derive the TD-SCDMA system performance.

Simplified iterative algorithm for OFDM phase noise mitigation

OFDM has been widely adopted in several communication systems. However, OFDM systems are very sensitive to the phase noise, which causes the CPE （common phase error） and ICI （inter-carrier interference）, and thus degrades the system performance significantly. Based on the IEEE 802.11a standard, a simplified iterative phase noise mitigation algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm has very low complexity, and requires no additional pilot information. The simulation result shows that good BER performance can be achieved through several few times of iteration.

Residual Phase Noise and Time Jitters of Single-Chip Digital Frequency Dividers

In this paper, we demonstrate the residual phase noise of a few microwave frequency dividers which usually limit the performance of frequency synthesizers. In order to compare these dividers under different operation frequencies, we calculate additional time jitters of these dividers by using the measured phase noise. The time jitters are various from -0.1 fs to 43 fs in a bandwidth from 1 Hz to 100 Hz in dependent of models and operation frequencies. The HMC series frequency dividers exhibit outstanding performance for high operation frequencies, and the time jitters can be sub-fs. The time jitters of SP8401, MC10EP139, and MC100LVEL34 are comparable or even below that of HMC series for low operation frequencies.

Influence on the Lifetime of ^(87)Rb Bose-Einstein Condensation for Far-Detuning Single-Frequency Lasers with Different Phase Noises

We study the influence of the phase noises of far detuning single frequency lasers on the lifetime of Bose-Einstein condensation（BEC）of^（87）Rb in an optical dipole trap.As a comparison,we shine a continuous-wave singlefrequency Ti：sapphire laser,an external-cavity diode laser and a phase-locked diode laser on BEC.We measure the heating and lifetime of BEC in two different hyperfine states：｜F=2,m_F=2〉and｜F=1,m_F=1〉.Due to the narrow linewidth and small phase noise,the continuous-wave single-frequency Ti：sapphire laser has less influence on the lifetime of^（87）Rb BEC than the external-cavity diode laser.To reduce the phase noise of the external-cavity diode laser,we use an optical phase-locked loop for the external-cavity diode laser to be locked on a Ti：sapphire laser.The lifetime of BEC is increased when applfying the phase-Jocked diode laser in contrast with the external-cavity diode laser.

Low Phase Noise VCO using Novel Harmonic Control Circuit Based on Quad-band Composite Right/Left-handed Transmission Line

In this paper, a novel Voltage-Controlled Oscillator （VCO） using the harmonic control circuit based on the quad-band Composite Right/Left-Handed （CRLH） Transmission Line （TL） is presented to reduce the phase noise without the reduction of the frequeacy tuning range and miniaturizing the circuit size. The phase noise has been reduced by the quad-band harmonic control circuit which has the short impedance for the second- and third- and fourth- and fifth-hannonic components. The CRLH TL with two Left-Handed （LH） （backward） and two Right-Handed （RH） （forward） pass bands are used to design the quad-band harmonic control circuit. The high- Q resonator has been used to reduce the phase noise, but it has the problem of the frequency timing range reduction. However, the frequency tuning range of the proposed VCO has not reduced because the phase noise has reduced without the high-Q resonator. The miniaturization of the circuit size is achieved by using the quad-band CRLH TL instead of the conventional RH TL, The phase noise of VCO is - 124.43～ - 122.67 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz in the tuning range of 5. 729 ～5.934 GHz.

An oscillator with low phase noise based on active resonator using metamaterial in K-band

An oscillator(OSC)with a metamaterial resonator based on high-Q is designed to improve the phase noise in Kband.The proposed metamaterial resonator is a lattice structure resonator(LSR)that is designed to be high-Q by a strong coupling of E-field at the resonance frequency.Thus the output of OSC is about 12.5dBm at the f0.The phase noise is 109.477dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset frequency.