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How to reduce the instability in tuned amplifier? 

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Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2009
6 Citations
Bifurcation loci provide instability contours versus practical design parameters and can be used to evaluate the impact of the instability on the overall amplifier performance and to stabilize the amplifier.
Using numerical simulations of thermally induced mode coupling we show how the instability threshold can be substantially reduced if the pump or injected signal is modulated in the kHz range.
A drive wave with sufficiently high intensity can further reduce the growth rate of the absolute instability and prolong the stable amplification period.
In a uniform magnetic field, the instability exhibits an exceedingly narrow bandwidth, 2.5 MHz, which would be a great disadvantage in any practical application as an amplifier.
Open accessProceedings ArticleDOI
Arlee V. Smith, Jesse J. Smith 
4 Citations
Gain saturation is strong in any efficient amplifier and we show how it can be exploited to raise instability thresholds be a factor of two or more while staying below the stimulated Brillouin threshold.
A detailed study of these nonlinear shifts reveals several ways to reduce these new sources of frequency instability.
Finally, besides the LNAs, the presented stabilization technique can also be utilized in other tuned amplifiers, filters or oscillators employing damped LC-tuned loads.
The identification of the mechanisms behind the different instability phenomena will lead to an efficient derivation of accurate techniques for their elimination from the amplifier response.
A novel nonlinear analysis of high power amplifier instability has been developed.
Because of the existence of an input source at the same frequency of the instability, the degenerate parametric power amplifier will exhibit a specific bifurcation behavior, inherent to this type of circuit.