On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:14:19 -0500, Phil Hobbs
wrote:
On 2/2/2014 12:58 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 09:08:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:07:25 -0800, John Larkin
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:49:55 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:
PAL fails to realize that injection locking an oscillator requires an
oscillator :-}
You fail to realize that a parametric oscillator is an oscillator.
His post was an attempt to output a subharmonic without the
oscillator. There are better ways to handle such a scenario.
For example, see my boom-box machine (circa 1979)...
http://www.analog-innovations.com/SED/SubBassEnhancer_BoomBoxProcessor.pdf
BoomBox! Hilarious hairball. Why do something with a few parts, when you can use
hundreds?
Here is an injection-locked OSCILLATOR....
http://www.analog-innovations.com/SED/InjectionLockingAnOscillator.pdf
...Jim Thompson
Trivial and unoriginal. It's more interesting to use the parametric pump as the
gain element.
Of course, PAL, it works so-o-o-o well :-}
...Jim Thompson
The point is that it does work. It makes an f/2 signal using only a diode as the
active element, which was (some time ago) in question here. With a proper
varicap diode and some optimization, it would be more efficient. But it works.
It was sort of an homage to A. F. Boff.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs...Fs/1960-01.pdf
Parametric dividers are still for sale, I think. Somebody used to
advertise them as "frequency halvers".
It's a pretty well known effect--see e.g.
http://www.vk2zay.net/article/150
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Awwwwh! Now you done gone and showed PAL how to "optimize" his
"hair-ball" :-}
...Jim Thompson
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