Abstract:
Undesirable higher order modulation components produced by a frequency converter are reduced by means of a second, weakly excited frequency converter. The latter, connected in parallel with the former, generates higher order terms which are injected into a common output wavepath out of time phase with the higher order terms produced by the principle frequency converter. By controlling the relative amplitudes of the local oscillator signals coupled to the two converters, the higher order components can be made to cancel whereas the desired linear signal components generated by the principle converter are substantially unaffected.
Abstract:
Modulation distortion due to phase modulation error in an interferometer type modulator is minimized by extracting a portion of the phase modulated carrier frequency signals in the two branches of the interferometer and sensing the resulting amplitude modulation in an auxiliary interferometer circuit. The modulation signal is compared with the input modulation signal and a weighted error signal is formed. The latter is then used to impress an error correcting phase modulation on the carrier frequency signals.
Abstract:
An extremely narrow-band filter, having a passband of less than one hertz in the megahertz range, comprises two parallel, signal processing wavepaths, each of which includes, in cascade, a downconverter, a low-frequency narrow-band filter, and an upconverter. A local oscillator signal, derived from a common local signal source, is coupled to each of the converters in such phase that the output signal from each converter in one wavepath is in time quadrature with the output signal from the corresponding converter in the other wavepath. An input power divider couples the input of each down-converter to a common input circuit. A hybrid coupler connects the outputs from the two up-converters to a common output circuit. In one embodiment, automatic frequency control is applied to the local oscillator along with means for controlling the bandwidth of the low-frequency filters. In another embodiment, the filter output signal is shifted in frequency and then used as the local oscillator.
Abstract:
Frequency-shaping of the gain characteristic of a feed-forward, error-corrected amplifier using main and error amplifiers having essentially flat, or frequency-independent gain characteristics, is achieved by tapering the power division characteristics of: the input coupler, which extracts a reference signal component from the input signal; the sampling coupler, which compares the output from the main amplifier with the reference signal to form an error signal; and the error injection coupler, which injects the error signal into the main signal path. In a second embodiment of the invention, the band-shaping burden is shared between the amplifiers and the couplers.
Abstract:
An optical beam deflector is described in which a portion of the incident beam is deflected through a variable angle whose magnitude is determined by the direction of propagation of a substantially constant frequency acoustic beam.
Abstract:
The power derived from N identical power amplifiers are combined in any one of N different output ports by controlling the relative phases of the signals propagating along N different transmission lines energized, respectively, by the N amplifiers. In particular, the N output ports are longitudinally distributed along said lines, and are coupled thereto through networks that are responsive to a different mode of excitation, where each mode is a different arrangement of input signal phases. It is an advantage of such a system that all the switching is done in the amplfiiers'' relatively low-power input circuits rather than in the high-power output circuits.
Abstract:
This application discloses an arrangement for transmitting, over an existing communication facility, a signal whose spectrum only partially overlaps the passband of the facility. This is accomplished by a technique called ''''spectrum folding'''' wherein the input signal spectrum is divided into two subbands, one of which includes the out-of-band frequency components, and the other of which includes only those frequency components that fall within the system passband. The former subband is then frequencyshifted to a portion of the passband not occupied by the in-band subband, following which the two subbands are multiplexed for transmission along a common wavepath. At the receiver, the subbands are again separated, and the frequency-shifted subband translated back to its original position in the spectrum. The subbands are then combined to reproduce the original input signal.
Abstract:
This application describes an active four-port having directional transmission properties. The four-port comprises two active members whose respective emitting, control and collecting electrodes are connected by means of separate networks characterized in that the symmetric mode transfer gain and the antisymmetric mode transfer gain, as measured between the control and collecting electrodes, are equal.
Abstract:
THIS APPLICATION DESCRIBES THE MANNER IN WHICH A FREQUENCY CONVERTER CAN BE USED AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN DIFFERENT FREQUENCY DOMAINS. IN PARTICULAR, A FREQUENCY CONVERTER IS USED TO IMAGE LOW FREQUENCY CIRCUIT COMPONENTS AT A HIGHER FREQUENCY, THEREBY PRODUCING CIRCUIT RESPONSES AT THE HIGHER FREQUENCY THAT COULD NOT ORDINARILY BE PRODUCED DIRECTLY. FOR EXAMPLE, A RELATIVELY MODERATE Q RESONANT CIRCUIT IS IMAGED AT A HIGHER FREQUENCY WITH A Q THAT IS INCREASED BY THE FREQUENCY TRANSFORMATION RATIO. A NEGATIVE RESISTANCE DIODE IS IMAGED AT A HIGHER FREQUENCY THEREBY PRODUCING AMPLIFICATION AT A FREQUENCY AT WHICH SUCH A DIODE COULD NOT NORMALLY OPERATE.