We proposed a 24-GHz frequency synthesizer (FS) for automotive radar application, which consists of a phaselocked loop (PLL) and an injection-locked frequency multiplier (ILFM). Based on a novel topology, the multiply-by2 ILFM consists of a double-balanced mixer and an injectionlocked oscillator (ILO). The PLL is designed with a 12-GHz voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and an injection-locked...

We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those gathering and integrating information from Web sources is a high query response time. This is because the data needed to answer user queries is present across several diierent Web sources (and in several pages within a s...

BACKGROUND Decreasing the stiffness of locked plating constructs can promote natural fracture healing by controlled dynamization of the fracture. This biomechanical study compared the effect of 4 different stiffness reduction methods on interfragmentary motion by measuring axial motion and shear motion at the fracture site. METHODS Distal femur locking plates were applied to bridge a metadiap...

Speech elicits a phase-locked response in the auditory cortex that is dominated by theta (3-7 Hz) frequencies when observed via magnetoencephalography (MEG). This phase-locked response is potentially explained as new phase-locked activity superimposed on the ongoing theta oscillation or, alternatively, as phase-resetting of the ongoing oscillation. The conventional method used to distinguish be...

In this paper we present the characterisation of the phase noise and temporal shape of a quantum dash laser. The laser generates an optical comb with a line spacing of 24.5GHz, over a 10nm wide spectrum. The device can operate passively mode locked or actively locked to a synthesiser. The phase noise of the device has been measured and compared in both regimes. By actively mode locking the devi...

We examine analytically the existence and stability of phase-locked states in a weakly heterogeneous neuronal network. We consider a model of N neurons with all-to-all synaptic coupling where the heterogeneity is in the firing frequency or intrinsic drive of the neurons. We consider both inhibitory and excitatory coupling. We derive the conditions under which stable phase-locking is possible. I...

Abstract A new scheme of optical pulse generation using multiple optoelectronic phase locked loops is proposed. The principle of the scheme is combining three or more coherent optical waves having equal frequency separation. The coherencies of the optical waves are attained by the use of optoelectronic phase locked loops. The repetition frequency of the generated optical pulse is equal to the f...

A high-speed triangular-modulated spread-spectrum clock generator using a fractional phase-locked loop is presented. The fractional division is implemented by a nested fractional topology, which is constructed from a dual-modulus divide-by-(N–1/16)/N divider to divide the VCO outputs as a first division period and a fractional control circuit to establish a second division period to cause the o...

The use of syndrome coding in steganographic schemes tends to reduce distortion during embedding. The more complete model comes from the wet papers (J. Fridrich et al., 2005) and allow to lock positions which cannot be modified. Recently, binary BCH codes have been investigated and seem to be good candidates in this context (D. Schönfeld and A. Winkler, 2006). Here, we show that Reed-Solomon co...

We demonstrate a method that enables accurate timing jitter spectral-density characterization of free-running mode-locked laser oscillators over more than 10 decades of Fourier frequency from mHz to tens of MHz range. The method is based on analyzing both the input voltage noise to the slave laser and the output voltage noise from the balanced optical cross-correlator (BOC), when two mode-locke...