Understanding Phase Noise Fundamentals

This video provides a short introduction to phase noise, the effects of phase noise, and how phase noise is measured and analyzed.

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Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 About oscillators
01:20 Ideal oscillator
01:54 Real oscillator
02:38 What is phase noise?
03:14 Common effects of phase noise
03:29 Review / refresher: mixing
04:15 Mixing and phase noise
04:33 Phase noise and spectral regrowth
05:10 Phase noise and reciprocal mixing
06:02 Phase noise and communications systems
06:46 Measuring and analyzing phase noise
08:02 Overview of the spectrum analyzer method
08:52 Single sideband (SSB) phase noise
09:33 Plotting SSB phase noise
10:15 Spot noise
10:55 Phase noise analyzer / cross-correlation
12:05 Additional phase noise-related measurements
12:57 Summary