Substrate noise generated by digital circuits on mixed-signal ICs can disturb the sensitiveanalog/RF circuits, such as Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), sharing the same substrate. This paperinvestigates the adverse impact of the substrate noise on a high frequency cascode LNA laid out on alightly doped substrate. By studying the major noise coupling mechanisms, a new and efficientmodeling method is p...

A statistical technique is presented for the characterization of spectral regrowth at the output of a nonlinear amplifier driven by a digitally modulated carrier in a digital radio system. The technique yields an analytical expression for the autocorrelation function of the output signal as a function of the statistics of the quadrature input signal transformed by a behavioral model of the ampl...

In this paper it is shown that for the purpose of nonlinear power amplifier behavioural modelling, the sampling rate can be set to the Nyquist rate of the input signal, rather than to the Nyquist rate of the output signal by making use of Zhu’s generalized sampling theorem. This claim is supported by measurements on a basestation power amplifier. The findings are that the model error obtained w...

In this study, an eight-channel wide-band intermediate frequency (IF) receiver with S-band input frequency, output of 200 MHz, and a signal bandwidth 160 MHz was developed. The performance measurement results the IF showed that fundamental second harmonic were involved in output. This caused by nonlinearity characteristics final stage amplifier. Therefore, amplifier changed to differential ampl...

We investigate the beating of signal and idler waves, which have imbalanced signal to noise ratios, in a phase-sensitive parametric amplifier. Imbalanced signal to noise ratios are achieved in two ways; first by imbalanced noise loading; second by varying idler to signal input power ratio. In the case of imbalanced noise loading the phase-sensitive amplifier improved the signal to noise ratio f...

Amplifiers employing positive or negative feedback are fundamental building blocks in electronic circuits. Negative feedback is employed to linearize amplifiers in order to reduce distortion of the input signal and improve amplifier bandwidth. Conversely, applying sufficient positive feedback to an amplifier results in an oscillator because an output signal occurs when no input signal is presen...

This paper provides an alternative and highly accurate method in predicting Small Signal Performance of Microwave Amplifier. An Electromagnetic (EM) simulator that based on Finite Element Method (FEM) was used in combination with the conventional SPICE-based microwave circuit simulator in order to demonstrate the superiority in performance outcome such as Rollet Stability Factor (K), Return Los...

The manufacturing of intravascular imaging coils poses several challenges. Due to their size, it can be difficult to incorporate local matching networks and signal amplifiers. The goal of this study is to investigate tuning and amplification strategies for intravascular coils and to assess the signal-to-noise benefits of incorporating a matching network and/or miniature amplifier into catheter-...

The design of a CMOS operational mirrored amplifier (OMA) suitable for high frequency applications is proposed. The CMOS operational mirrored amplifier is developed using class AB operational amplifier and two current mirrors. To obtain a wide bandwidth and high stability, HF feedforward techniques have been used. These techniques made the proposed circuit suitable for continuous – time analog ...

Abstract A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system using a fiber ring laser with a hybrid amplifier is proposed and demonstrated. The hybrid amplifier comprises an erbium doped waveguide amplifier and a semiconductor optical amplifier. The experiment shows that such the hybrid amplifier has a high amplifier spontaneous emission power and gain spectrum. Moreover, this fiber ring laser can provid...