Definition of Local oscillator

1. Noun. An oscillator whose output heterodynes with the incoming radio signal to produce sum and difference tones.

Exact synonyms: Heterodyne Oscillator
Group relationships: Heterodyne Receiver, Superhet, Superheterodyne Receiver
Generic synonyms: Oscillator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Oscillator

local exchange carrier
local exchange carriers
local excitatory state
local flap
local gigantism
local gigantisms
local glomerulonephritis
local government
local hormone
local immunity
local lane
local maximum
local minimum
local nerve block
local option
local oscillator (current term)
local post office
local preacher
local preachers
local reaction
local ring
local rings
local road
local sign
local stimulant
local street
local symptom
local syncope
local tetanus
local therapy

Literary usage of Local oscillator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book on Wireless Telegraphy by Rupert Stanley (1919)
"With an independent local oscillator CW reception can take place with very ... The local oscillator -will be slightly out of tune but the amplitude of the ..."

2. Precision Spectroscopy, Diode Lasers, and Optical Frequency Measuredited by Leo Hollberg edited by Leo Hollberg (2000)
"A 91 GHz local oscillator signal from a Gunn diode is also coupled onto the whisker. The Schottky diode down-converts the millimeter or submillimeter ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In principle, this can be overcome by the use of a tunable laser as the local oscillator. Newly developed lead telluride-tin telluride semiconductor ..."

4. Radio Telephony by Alfred Norton Goldsmith (1918)
"... equality of frequency of the transmitter and of the local oscillator at the receiver) or a beat frequency above audibility (that is, ..."

5. Radio Telephony by Alfred Norton Goldsmith (1918)
"... equality of frequency of the transmitter and of the local oscillator at the receiver) or a beat frequency above audibility (that is, ..."

6. Wavenumber Calibration Tables from Heterodynes Frequency Measurements by Arthur G. Maki, Joseph S. Wells (1997)
"A frequency-stabilized CO2 laser served as the local oscillator for these heterodyne ... For this chapter, the term local oscillator is reserved for the ..."

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