#644 Practical Oscillator Handbook

Book notes: Practical Oscillator Handbook, by Irving M. Gottlieb. First published November 30, 1970.

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Contents

• 1 Frequency-determining elements of oscillators
  • Parallel-tuned LC circuit
  • Losses in a tank circuit
  • Characteristics of ‘ideal’ LC resonant circuit
  • Resonance in the parallel-tuned LC circuit
  • Practical tank circuits with finite losses
  • Figure of merit, ‘Q’
  • Physical interpretation of R,
  • Phase characteristics of parallel-tuned LC circuit
  • Series-resonant tank circuits
  • L/C ratio in tank circuits
  • Transmission lines
  • The delay line
  • Distributed parameters from ‘lumped’ LC circuit
  • Resonance in transmission lines
  • Concept of field propagation in waveguides
  • Some important features of lines and guides
  • Quartz crystals
  • A closer look at crystal operating conditions
  • Magnetostrictive element
  • The magnetostriction oscillator
  • The tuning fork
  • RC networks as oscillating elements
  • LC networks as phase shifters
• 2 Active devices used in oscillators
  • The bipolar junction transistor
  • Transistor polarity and Darlington pairs
  • MOSFET transistors
  • Operating modes of MOSFETs and JFETs
  • The voltage-follower format of active devices
  • Bias considerations in active devices
  • Using the op amp in oscillators
  • Modes of operation for op amps and logic circuits
  • Neon bulb as a switching device
  • Thyratrons
  • The thyratron inverter
  • Spark-gap oscillator
  • Negative-resistance devices
  • The dynatron oscillator
  • Transitron oscillator
  • The unijunction transistor
  • Triode input as negative resistance
  • The saturable magnetic core
  • Oscillation in the saturable-core circuit
  • The electron beam in a vacuum
  • The magnetron
  • The reflex klystron
  • Travelling-wave tubes and the backward-wave oscillator
  • Oscillator theory in terms in the universal amplifier
  • Some considerations in the selection of semiconductor devices for oscillators
• 3 Theory of oscillators
  • The tunnel diode
  • The Class-C feedback oscillator
  • The question of original signal voltage
  • Initiation of oscillation build-up
  • Effect of fixed bias on spontaneous oscillation build-up
  • Effect of positive feedback on gain of an amplifier
  • Physical interpretation of infinite gain
  • Feedback and negative resistance from the ‘viewpoint’ of the resonant tank
  • The practical obsctacle to infinite build-up
  • Springs, weights and oscillating charges
  • Divergent effects of bias in feedback and negative-resistance oscillators
  • The multivibrator
  • The blocking oscillator
  • The squegging oscillator
  • Sine wave oscillation in the phase-shift oscillator
  • The parallel-T oscillator
  • The Wien bridge oscillator
  • Loading of oscillators
  • The electron-coupled oscillator
• 4 Some practical aspects of various oscillators
  • Three types of Hartley oscillators
  • The Lampkin oscillator
  • The tuned-plate/tuned-grid oscillator
  • The Miller oscillator
  • The Colpitts oscillator
  • The ultra-audion oscillator
  • The Pierce oscillator
  • The Clapp oscillator
  • The tri-tet oscillator
  • The Meissner oscillator
  • The Meacham bridge oscillator
  • Line oscillators
  • The magnetostriction oscillator
  • The Franklin oscillator
  • The Butler oscillator
  • Bipolar transistor oscillators
  • The unijunction transistor oscillator
  • Optimizing the performance of the Miller crystal oscillator
  • Optimizing the performance of the Colpitts crystal oscillator
• 5 Universal oscillator circuits
  • The universal amplifier: the three-terminal device
  • 100 kHz transistor Butler oscillator
  • An example of a dual-gate MOSFET oscillator
  • Single transistor parallel-T oscillator
  • Several special-interest feedback circuits
  • A harmonic oscillator using a fundamental-frequency crystal
  • A bipolar transistor overtone crystal oscillator
  • An overtone crystal oscillator circuit using a FET
  • The use of diodes to select crystals electronically
  • Electronic tuning with a reverse-biased silicon diode
  • Wien bridge oscillator
  • The op amp square-wave oscillator
  • Oscillator using an IC timer
  • A simple function generator
  • Square-wave oscillator using logic circuits
  • A few words about the SN7400 NAND gate IC
  • Logic circuit square-wave oscillator with crystal stabilization
  • A clock oscillator formed from cross-coupled tel NAND gates
  • Voltage-controlled oscillators
  • The Schmitt-trigger oscillator
• 6 Special oscillator topics
  • Guidelines for optimizing VFO performance
  • Some notes on VXOs
  • The ceramic filter oscillator
  • The regenerative modulator— is it an oscillator?
  • The phase-locked loop and synthesized oscillators
  • A second way of synthesizing frequencies from a reference oscillator
  • Quelling undesired oscillations
  • Fancy oscillator functions for the 555 IC timer
  • Wide tuning range via the difference oscillator
  • Microwave oscillators
  • The Gunn Diode
  • Gated oscillators for clean turn-on and turn-off