All fundamental frequency estimators based on spectral analysis rely heavily on a proper harmonic selection of the voice analyzed. Since in practice other spectral peaks pertaining to different sources are present in the signal, various schemes have been design to ensure a satisfactory elimination of non pertinent harmonics. This paper introduces a new harmonic selection algorithm based on harm...

Minimum Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is one of the most important requirements from multilevel inverter concerning good Power Quality. This paper presents the optimization of THD in 13 level Cascaded Multilevel Inverter with unequal dc source using Genetic Algorithm (GA). THD minimization is taken as an optimization problem derived from Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse width Modulation (...

Inverters with reduced number of switches have been proposed in the literature to improve the capability of cost reduction, total inverters size and switching losses of dc/ac inverter topologies. In addition, they have a lower probability of damaging the semi-conductor switches as well as lower commonmode currents. This paper proposes new designs for inverters with reduced number of switches. F...

We demonstrate an all-optical technique for the elimination of timing jitter in short pulse transmission systems. The technique relies on pulse pre-shaping followed by optical switching in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide via cascaded second harmonic and difference frequency generation. ©2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (130.3730)...

The single phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (Thirteen level) is designed for industrial applications and has a decreased number of switches. Cascaded Multilevel Inverters are widely used in the electric utility industry motors. When these inverters directly drives, THD contents output voltage extremely important since performance drive highly dependent on quality applied to it. symme...

Multilevel inverters proved its capabilities nowadays operating in the symmetrical and asymmetrical source of voltages to bring output voltage nearly a sinusoid. Several variations topological strategies put forth better quality with lesser harmonic distortion. However, it suffers from several issues predominantly such as more number devices, higher blocking voltage, power loss for levels. This...

This paper describes an automated model selection method for analysing the relationship between the order of the spherical harmonic basis functions used to fit high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data and the accuracy of the fitting results. The method performs statistical inference on the spherical harmonic expansion coefficients and uses a backward elimination procedure to remov...

For Common R or R-L load to apply arbitrary voltage, the bridge traditional inverters don’t have any difficulties by PWM method. However for driving some piezoelectric actuator, arbitrary voltage not a pulse but a steady voltage should be applied. Piezoelectric load is considered as R-C load and its voltage does not decrease even though the applied voltage decreases. Therefore it needs some spe...

Here, a self-oscillating mixer is experimentally demonstrated employing both the fundamental and harmonic signals generated by the oscillator sub-circuit in the mixing process. The resulting circuit is a dual-band down-converting mixer that can operate in the C-band, or in the X-band. The oscillator uses the active super harmonic coupling to enforce the quadrature relationship of the fundamenta...

This paper analyzes the way to increase the energy efficiency of three phase converters applied to control AC motor drives, through the reduction of the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the output voltage and the reduction in the switching losses in the PWM inverter. The aim is to develop a system which selects the most adequate modulation technique required to simultaneously optimize the har...