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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1977
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1976
Arnold M Levine, Chatsworth, CA (US);
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A frequency synthesizer or programmable multiple frequency source which uses a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) responsive to an independent control variable. The VCO is also responsive to control from an error loop circuit which derives an additional control voltage as a result of comparing the VCO frequency at any time with one of the phase delay multiples of a fiber optic delay line. The independent variable used to select an overall frequency desired controls the VCO directly to an approximate frequency and the fiber optic delay line and error generating loop associated therewith operates as an automatic vernier on the VCO to bring it into phase-lock with the nearest frequency which is a multiple of the reciprocal of the fiber optic line delay time.