Abstract:
THE PARASTIC ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH SWITCHING DIODES IN THEIR HIGH AND LOW CONDUCTIVITY STATES ARE DUALIZED. IN ASSOCIATION WITH A QUADRATURE HYBRID COUPLER, ONE HIGH CONDUCTIVITY DIODE AND ONE LOW CONDUCTIVITY DIODE FORM A BALANCED BRIDGE NETWORK WHICH INHIBITS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION. UPON SWITCHING ONE OF THE DIODES SO THAT BOTH ARE IN THE SAME CONDUCTIVITY STATE, THE COUPLER-DIODE NETWORK FORMS THE EQUIVALENT OF EITHER A SERIES-CONNECTED, SERIESRESONANT CIRCUIT, OR A PARALLEL-CONNECTED, PARALLEL-RESONANT CIRCUIT, DEPENDING UPON THE CONDUCTIVITY STATE OF THE
DIODES, BY CASCADING COUPLERS, A SWITCH HAVING AN ARBITRARILY HIGH ATTENUATION IN THE "OPEN" STATE, AND A SPECIFIED BAND-PASS CHARACTERISTIC IN THE "CLOSED" STATE IS PRODUCED. A SIMILAR ARRANGEMENT USING MAGIC-T HYBRIDS IS ALSO DISCLOSED.
Abstract:
Automatic gain control (AGC) is achieved by means of combined feedforward and feedback means. The feedforward AGC controls the signal level in the main signal path. The feedback AGC stabilizes the signal level in the AGC circuit. The use of feedforward techniques permits the AGC system to respond rapidly notwithstanding the presence of a narrowband filter in the AGC circuit, where such filter is included to extract a reference signal from among the many signals present in the main signal path.
Abstract:
A procedure for synthesizing any prescribed differential phase shift by means of passive lumped element, minimum phase networks is outlined. In a first embodiment of the invention, the phase shifters are made of quadrature couplers. In a second embodiment of the invention, bridged-T phase shifters are employed.
Abstract:
The effective turns ratio of a transformer is modified by sampling the transformer primary current and injecting at least one vernier current proportional thereto into the secondary circuit of said transformer. The sampling is done by at least one vernier transformer which is arranged to respond to asymmetric mode excitation but to be transparent to symmetric mode currents.
Abstract:
An impedance match at the external terminals of an amplifier are simulated by cancelling any component of the signal wave reflected by the amplifier. At the input terminal of the amplifier, the cancelling wave is obtained by sampling the amplified signal and directionally coupling a portion thereof into the amplifier input network in a direction away from the amplifier. At the amplifier output terminal, the cancelling wave is obtained by sampling any wave reflected back towards the amplifier, and injecting a portion of this wave into the input end of the amplifier.
Abstract:
The phase deficiency in a parametric traveling-wave device, due to dispersion in the wavepath, is compensated by means of a grating distributed along a surface of an otherwise uniform nonlinear material. In one embodiment of the invention the grating is fixed. In a second, tunable embodiment of the invention, an acoustic surface wave serves as a moving grating.
Abstract:
A multibranch array comprising a multibranch input network for dividing a signal into n equal signal components, where n is any integer, and a multibranch output network for recombining said components in phase. The networks are interconnected by means of n branch circuits which include first phase shifters for producing phase differences among the branch signals equal to different multiples of 180 m/n*, where m is an integer less than n. Second phase shifters produce complementary phase shifts to restore the signals to a common phase for recombination in the output network. Amplifiers or other circuit elements are located in each of the branch circuits between pairs of phase shifters.
Abstract:
A laser, mode locked by an intracavity phase modulator, can support either of two separate pulse trains and, typically, will switch erratically between the two. To avoid the resulting instability in the laser output, it is proposed to phase modulate the laser at the synchronous frequency, as is done in the prior art and, simultaneously, to phase modulate it at the second harmonic of the synchronous frequency. So modulated, the two pulse trains are phase locked to produce a single, stabilized output pulse train.