[time-nuts] locking oscillators - an increase in power and/or stability ?

[Jim Lux]

On 10/11/14, 9:00 AM, cdelect at juno.com wrote:
> Came across this.
> Might be relevant.
> Cheers,
> Corby
>
> http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930008868.pdf
> a) Greater than 100% power combining efficiencies have been realized as
> predicted. This implies that the output power from the combiner is
> typically greater than
> the sum of the power available from individual devices.
>

Those are Indium Phosphide Gunn Oscillators which are highly nonlinear 
and have significant dynamic component to their Z.
So you can't expect all the usual combining rules (which are typically 
based on constant impedances, etc.)

This might be one of those "optimize the dynamic match to suck more 
power out of the device" kind of things.