Pulse or digital communications – Receivers – Angle modulation
Patent
1996-09-30
1997-12-30
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Receivers
Angle modulation
4552391, 455308, 375343, 330135, H03D 300, H03K 906
Patent
active
057039100
ABSTRACT:
The present receiver includes a radiofrequency part (RF) coupled to a limiting amplifier (SL) which is in turn coupled to a demodulation means (DM) which recovers a digital signal from a received signal obtained by modulating a carrier signal with this digital signal. The limiting amplifier (SL) has an input-output characteristic which is substantially linear for smaller input signals and which strives with a decreasing gain towards a limit value for larger input signals. Due to this input-output characteristic smaller received signals are treated linearly up to the demodulation means (DM). The latter can therefore for these signals compensate for a specific spectrum shaping of the digital signal performed before the actual modulation. In this way the receiver will perform in a nearly optimal way resulting in low bit error rates. For larger received signals the limiting amplifier (SL) is non-linear and such compensation is consequently without effect resulting for these signals in a performance degradation. The Latter however is acceptable because these signals are naturally demodulated with less errors.
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Cassiers Raphael Paul Claude
Durvaux Marc Marie Ghislain
ALCATEL N.V.
Chin Stephen
Phan Hai H.
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