Hi,
The PLL acts like a combined lowpass and highpass filter.
Noise in the loop is high-pass filtered, thus, the further down from the
loop bandwidth, the better suppression of the noise.
Noise on the reference input is low-pass filtered, so that it passes
through DC and a bit more, but high frequency jitter gets filtered out
more and more as the frequency goes up from the loop bandwidth.
While noise in the loop gets suppressed, it is wise not to make it too
large. However, no need to go overboard. Getting the op-amp to support
the loop bandwidth properly makes good sense. Too much leakage due to
low load impedance is a bad thing.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 06/28/2017 09:23 PM, Thomas S. Knutsen wrote:
Thank you Bob.
I was thinking of the contribution outside the loop, as for most part my
PLL loops are around 1Hz and resolving closer than 10Hz isn't easy with a
analyzer that stops at 10Hz.
I guess what I'm asking is: should I take any care in the unity gain
buffers or would any normal garden variety op-amp work?
Wentzel used the 310 in his buffers, and those are a bit special, being a
bipolar amp with 2nA input bias current.
BR.
Thomas
2017-06-28 18:08 GMT+02:00 Bob kb8tq <[email protected]>:
Hi
Ok, let’s back up a bit:
There are two basic regions when measuring a phase locked oscillator. You
can be “inside” the loop bandwidth or “outside”. Yes it’s a bit more
complex
than that, but go with the idea for now. Inside the bandwidth, everything
about
the PLL can / may matter. It can and often does contribute noise to the
result.
That noise might be from the detector, a divider, or even the loop
amplifier. Outside
the loop bandwidth you just see the oscillator phase noise. (There is a
third region
in-between the two where things get even more messy).
Based on that, you will see some noise from the loop amplifier. Exactly
how much
(is it 0.001 db?) or how far out will always be a “that depends” sort of
thing. Without
measurement (and possibly modeling) there is no single answer to the
question. There
are many noise sources in any phase noise setup so this issue is hardly
unique to the
loop amp.
Bob
On Jun 28, 2017, at 6:29 AM, Thomas S. Knutsen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
When measuring Phase Noise using PLL, what noise would be contribuded
from
the PLL into the amplifier?
Lets say we disconnect the control voltage from the oscillator, shouldn't
the input stage of the PLL contribute some, altough miniscule part to the
total noise seen?
Would this noise be masked by the noise from the phase detector?
The reason for asking is that I'm trying to improve my PN measurement
setup.
Currently the PLL consist of a unity gain buffer made of TL072 before the
PLL filter, not unlike what Wentzel did in his amplifier. The PLL filter
is
a low noise op-amp (OP27).
BR.
Thomas.
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