Noise in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits

Overcome the effects of noise to push the level of circuit performance with this practical reference. Thoroughly explaining the theory of noise in high-frequency circuits, the book focuses on the real-world problems noise creates. It provides you with a full understanding of methods for analyzing and minimizing noise in linear and nonlinear circuits. The book pays special attention to phase noise in oscillators, offering you a comprehensive and accessible treatment of this critical topic. Additionally, this authoritative volume examines noise in low-noise amplifiers, mixers, and frequency multipliers.

Rather than concentrating on theory, practitioner Maas emphasizes real-world circuit performance, giving some background on phase and amplitude noise as well as linear and nonlinear noise, then progressing to noise and random processes, including narrowband random processes, noise figure, noise temperature, and the system noise model, the noise theory of solid-state devices and of linear and nonlinear circuits, low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, and mixers and frequency multipliers. Maas includes a list of references with each chapter. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Stephen A. Maas is the chief scientist at Applied Wave Research in El Segundo, CA. The Artech House series editor of microwave software, Dr. Maas is also the author of Nonlinear Microwave and RF Circuits, Second Edition, The RF and Microwave Circuit Design Cookbook, and Microwave Mixers, Second Edition (Artech House 2003, 1998, 1993), and the coauthor of C/NL for Windows 95, NT and 3.1: Version 1.2 (Artech House 1996). He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA.