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Definition of Local oscillator
1. Noun. An oscillator whose output heterodynes with the incoming radio signal to produce sum and difference tones.
Group relationships: Heterodyne Receiver, Superhet, Superheterodyne Receiver
Generic synonyms: Oscillator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Oscillator
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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