LOCAL OSCILLATOR UNCORRELATED PHASE NOISE ANALYSIS FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE PASSIVE IMAGER BHU-2D FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER

Abstract

In this paper, a nontrivial local oscillator uncorrelated phase noise analysis is proposed for frequency synthesizer of a pas- sive millimeter-wave Synthetic Aperture Interferometric Radiometer (SAIR) imager BHU-2D designed for concealed weapon detections on human bodies with high imaging rates. The frequency synthesizer pro- vides local oscillator signals for both millimeter-wave front-ends and intermediate frequency I/Q demodulators for the receivers. The in- ∞uence of local oscillator uncorrelated phase noise in difierent ofiset frequency ranges on the visibility phase errors have been systemati- cally investigated, and the corresponding system-level visibility speci- flcations are drawn. The integrated RMS phase error has been applied to set uncorrelated phase noise requirements in the most critical ofiset frequency range for visibility error control. The synthesizer design is given, and measurement results have proved that the visibility phase error requirement is achieved by the PN analysis method proposed with system-level visibility error tests performed. To conclude, the phase noise efiects on SAIR visibility phase errors are investigated by the- ory, and are properly limited by the PN requirement analysis method to ensure that the system-level visibility phase error speciflcation is satisfled.