Reduction of excessive spectral power distribution from class-C

Details Reduction of excessive spectral power distribution from class-C Reduction of excessive spectral power distribution from class-C

1997-03-18

1998-08-04

Mullins, James B.

Amplifiers

Hum or noise or distortion bucking introduced into signal...

375297, 455114, H03F 132

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057899797

ABSTRACT:
In an amplifier for amplifying a pulsed sinusoidal carrier signal, wherein the amplifier employs an amplifier element operative as Class-C with a saturation operation region which increases the sharpness of leading and trailing edges of a rectangular pulse envelope of the pulsed carrier signal for undesirable spectral spreading of energy of the signal, a method of reducing the spectral spreading of the energy employs a modification of the rectangular envelope of the pulsed carrier signal to a trapezoidal envelope. The leading and the trailing edges of the trapezoidal envelope constitute envelopes of sinusoidal waveforms of increasing and decreasing amplitude, respectively. The peak amplitudes of the largest amplitude sinusoidal of the leading and the trailing edges have powers which exceed a power level inducing the saturated operation of the amplifier element such that there is a decrement in incremental power gain by a factor of approximately 3 dB. In the pulse of carrier signal outputted by the amplifier element, the carrier in a central region thereof has a substantially square-wave configuration while, at the leading and the trailing edges, the cycles of the waveform are substantially sinusoidal. A bank of numerous amplifying channels, each of which contains the amplifier element, are fed the modified envelope by a common filter which produces the modification.

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patent: 4706262 (1987-11-01), Ohta
patent: 4928072 (1990-05-01), Scott
patent: 5381110 (1995-01-01), O'Leary et al.

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