Acknowledgements
Authors kindly thank our teachers and our colleagues from National Research
University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute” for detailed discussion of several
sections of this book and especially professors Kotelnikov V.A., Utkin G.M.,
Kapranov M.V., Kuleshov V.N., Udalov N.N., Grigoriants V.V., Dvornikov A.A.,
Chamorovskiy Yu.K., Tsarapkin D.P., Ph.D. Babkina T.v., Ph.D. Khrunov A.V.,
Ph.D. Kurochkina T.I. for the long-term support.
We thank Professor N.N. Udalov for his attentive and supporting attitude to this
direction in 2006–2014 which was necessary for this book appearance. Professor
M.V. Kapranov introduced the serious contribution in development of PLL methods
for RF systems with fiber optical delay lines in (1988–1989). Professor
V.V. Grigoriantz, Professor A.A. Dvornikov, Ph.D. V.N. Konstantinov, leading
engineer V.A. Prokofiev are pioneers of founders of laser optical-electronic oscillators. V.N. Konstantinov, in his Ph.D. thesis (1985–1988) developed the base parts of
theory of an optoelectronic oscillator with retarded feedback. The main aim of this
thesis was directed to investigation of this source of the long-term stable oscillation
without noises. V.N. Prokofiev created the first experimental sample of OEO, which
operated in frequencies of 30–40 MHz. Prof. Tsarapkin D.P. is a pioneer in the field
of Gunn diode oscillators with leuco-sapphire resonators, and Ph.D. Khrunov
A.V. worked with IMPATT diode oscillators with leuco-sapphire resonators.
Our sincere gratitude to Sam Harrison, Editor in the Physics Books group at
Springer, for his inestimable help to us at the stage of final manuscript preparation.
Moscow, Russia
Alexander A. Bortsov
Yuri B. Il’in
Sergey M. Smolskiy
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Authors kindly thank our teachers and our colleagues from National Research
University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute” for detailed discussion of several
sections of this book and especially professors Kotelnikov V.A., Utkin G.M.,
Kapranov M.V., Kuleshov V.N., Udalov N.N., Grigoriants V.V., Dvornikov A.A.,
Chamorovskiy Yu.K., Tsarapkin D.P., Ph.D. Babkina T.v., Ph.D. Khrunov A.V.,
Ph.D. Kurochkina T.I. for the long-term support.
We thank Professor N.N. Udalov for his attentive and supporting attitude to this
direction in 2006–2014 which was necessary for this book appearance. Professor
M.V. Kapranov introduced the serious contribution in development of PLL methods
for RF systems with fiber optical delay lines in (1988–1989). Professor
V.V. Grigoriantz, Professor A.A. Dvornikov, Ph.D. V.N. Konstantinov, leading
engineer V.A. Prokofiev are pioneers of founders of laser optical-electronic oscillators. V.N. Konstantinov, in his Ph.D. thesis (1985–1988) developed the base parts of
theory of an optoelectronic oscillator with retarded feedback. The main aim of this
thesis was directed to investigation of this source of the long-term stable oscillation
without noises. V.N. Prokofiev created the first experimental sample of OEO, which
operated in frequencies of 30–40 MHz. Prof. Tsarapkin D.P. is a pioneer in the field
of Gunn diode oscillators with leuco-sapphire resonators, and Ph.D. Khrunov
A.V. worked with IMPATT diode oscillators with leuco-sapphire resonators.
Our sincere gratitude to Sam Harrison, Editor in the Physics Books group at
Springer, for his inestimable help to us at the stage of final manuscript preparation.
Moscow, Russia
Alexander A. Bortsov
Yuri B. Il’in
Sergey M. Smolskiy
xi