摘要:
Disclosed is a sample-and-hold unit more especially designed to work at microwave frequencies (>1 GHz). In order to increase the sampling frequency, the disclosed circuit has at least two identical parallel channels. Each channel has a first follower switch (9) a capacitor (11) and a second holding switch (15). The channels are controlled by a single clock, the complementary or phase-shifted signals (H, H) of which address the samples sequentially towards the output (8). The disclosed device can be applied to the processing of analog signals.
摘要:
Disclosed is a microwave (1 GHZ) sample-and-hold unit having a field-effect transistor, to which an input signal is applied, and a storage capacitor. The transistor is made of materials of the III-V group, such as GaAs or InP, and Its channel region is controlled by an optical control device formed by an optic fiber and a pulsed laser semiconductor. In order to reduce the switching time of the transistor, this transistor and the laser are both biased at points close to their thresholds. The disclosed device can be applied in signal processing, at frequencies of the order of 1 GHz.
摘要:
The system includes processors each of which can drop an optical signal contained in one channel of an incoming optical multiplex signal and add an optical signal to the multiplex signal channel thereby made available. Each processor includes an optical signal drop filter and an optical signal add filter for an individual channel of particular wavelength, and these filters are connected by an optical switch. The drop filters and the add filters of the circuits of the system are connected in series, some in a drop subsystem and the others in an add subsystem, to transmit the multiplex signal from one filter to the other and from the drop subsystem to the add subsystem. They are distributed in order of decreasing drop or add wavelength from the input of the system at which the incoming multiplex signal is received.
摘要:
The automatic gain control method adapted to maintain the output level equal of the variable gain amplifier to a required value, includes a preliminary calibration phase for establishing a relationship representing the variations in the amplifier gain control signal as a function of variations in the input signal level with a constant output level equal to the required value or as a function of variations in the output signal level for a constant input signal level. The method further includes an operative phase for applying to the amplifier of a particular value of the gain control signal, measuring the corresponding output level, detecting any offset between the result of the measurement and the required value, and if such an offset is detected, determining a corresponding control signal value conditioned by the relationship previously established, and depending on the mode utilized to establish the relationship, either an input level whose offset relative to the corresponding input level given by the relationship at the particular value of the control signal is opposite to said detected offset, or an output level whose offset relative to the required value is opposite to the detected value, and finally, selectively updating the particular value when an offset is detected to so that the particular value becomes equal to the value obtained by the determination.