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Giant Resonant Reflection Gain from Injection-Induced Quenching in a Tunnel Diode

Darmindra Arumugam·Jack Bush·Brook Feyissa
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Negative-resistance microwave oscillators can simultaneously sustain autonomous oscillations and coherently scatter electromagnetic waves, enabling active reflection beyond conventional linear amplification. Here we demonstrate giant resonant reflection gain from synchronization-induced phase localization in a self-sustained tunnel diode oscillator operating near 2.96 GHz. Weak resonant RF injection drives a transition from a broadband free running state to a phase localized narrowband reflected carrier. The resulting reflected enhancement reaches 83.1dB relative to the injected signal and is accompanied by greater than order of magnitude linewidth collapse, nonlinear injection pulling, and a synchronization bandwidth of 15.84 kHz. Time resolved spectrograms directly resolve injection locking and frequency entrainment, while noisy Stuart Landau simulations reproduce the observed spectral concentration and detuning dependent gain roll off near the Hopf instability. Artificially increasing phase diffusion with broadband bias noise suppresses the reflected enhancement, confirming synchronization-induced quenching of phase fluctuations as the origin of the giant coherent reflection gain.

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Darmindra Arumugam, Jack Bush, Brook Feyissa. 2026-09-16. Giant Resonant Reflection Gain from Injection-Induced Quenching in a Tunnel Diode. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19494

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