posted on 2023-01-11, 21:47authored byTomoki Hiraoka, Takashi Arikawa, Hiroaki Yasuda, Yuta Inose, Norihiko Sekine, Iwao Hosako, Hiroshi Ito, Koichiro Tanaka
We studied the injection-locking properties of a resonant-tunneling-diode terahertz oscillator in the small-signal injection regime with a frequency-stabilized continuous THz wave. The linewidth of the emission spectrum dramatically decreased to less than 120 mHz (HWHM) from 4.4 MHz in the free running state as a result of the injection locking. We experimentally determined the amplitude of injection voltage at the antenna caused by the injected THz wave. The locking range was proportional to the injection amplitude and consistent with Adler's model. As increasing the injection amplitude, we observed decrease of the noise component in the power spectrum, which manifests the free-running state, and alternative increase of the injection-locked component. The noise component and the injection-locked component had the same power at the threshold injection amplitude as small as $5\times10^{-4}$ of the oscillation amplitude. This threshold behavior can be qualitatively explained by Maffezzoni's model of noise reduction in general limit-cycle oscillators.
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