Electrocardiography (EKG) systems provide a solution for the recording of the heart activity and are indispensable in patient monitoring. Interfacing the EKG system with the human body is done with analog signal processing and operates towards proper signal conditioning. The EKG analog interface consists of an instrumentation amplifier, a notch filter and a highpass filter. This paper proposes ...

We report the fabrication of an integrated LiNbO Y-junction synchronized double phase modulator fully packaged for RF-application up to 40 GHz. This optical modulator allows for delivering simultaneously counter-phase high-speed modulation and coupling for two input channels. It was designed for application to fiber-optical parametric amplifier and wavelength converters for suppressing idler sp...

TI Designs – Precision are analog solutions created by TI’s analog experts. Verified Designs offer the theory, component selection, simulation, complete PCB schematic & layout, bill of materials, and measured performance of useful circuits. Circuit modifications that help to meet alternate design goals are also discussed. This single-supply microphone pre-amplifier amplifies the output signal o...

Abstract This report is an outcome of a master degree project at Linköpings University in cooperation with Micronic Laser Systems AB. The purpose with this master degree project was to investigate how to implement a receiver in a data transfer system. The system consists of several data channels, where every channel consists of three parts: driver, transmission lines and receiver. The driver se...

Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifiers are high power, often broadband microwave amplifiers used extensively in satellite communications and electronic countermeasures. While the high-power outputs and wide gain-bandwidths make TWTs ideally suited for these purposes, the nonlinearity of these devices results in amplitude, phase and spectral distortion. Nonlinear distortion products appear as harm...

A high DC-gain low-power current recycling amplifier using positive-feedback technique is presented. In the proposed amplifier, the positive-feedback signal used to enhance the DC-gain is derived from the extra nodes created by cascoding. Positive-feedback offers the ability of obtaining a very high DC-gain, ideally infinite gain, without affecting high frequency performance and stability. Unde...

— This paper presents a novel compensation technique for low voltage low power three-stage amplifier driving large capacitive loads. The frequency bandwidth of this amplifier is improved due to usage of dual-active buffers in the efficient compensation network while a feed forward transconductance helps to enhance output large signal response. The paper provides a design procedure by developing...

We report a high-energy picosecond optical parametric generator/amplifier (OPG/A) based on a MgO:PPLN crystal pumped by a fiber master-oscillator-power-amplifier (MOPA) employing direct amplification. An OPG tuning range of 1450-3615 nm is demonstrated with pulse energies as high as 2.6 μJ (signal) and 1.2 μJ (idler). When seeded with a ~100 MHz linewidth diode laser, damage-limited pulse energ...

Jiyoun Lim et al. 377 A novel power amplifier for a polar transmitter is proposed to achieve better spectral performance for a wideband envelope signal. In the proposed scheme, 2-bit sigma-delta (ΣΔ) modulation of the envelope signal is introduced, and the power amplifier configuration is modified in a binary form to accommodate the 2-bit digitized envelope signals. The 2-bit ΣΔ modulator lower...

In multicarrier systems, the transmitted timedomain signal exhibits large amplitude peaks. This peak-toaverage power ratio (PAPR) problem complicates the practical use of multicarrier systems: the amplifier used to transmit the signal saturates because of the large peaks and causes non-linear distortion. As this non-linear distortion frustrates severely the detection of the multicarrier signal,...