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Circuit and method improving linearity, and reducing distortion, in microwave RF bandpass filters, especially superconducting filters
Circuit and method improving linearity, and reducing distortion, in microwave RF bandpass filters, especially superconducting filters
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机译:改进微波射频带通滤波器,尤其是超导滤波器中的线性度并减少失真的电路和方法
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In a bandpass filter circuit usable at the front end of a cellular microwave radio receiver, and particularly suitable for implementation with high temperature superconductor transmission lines, an rf input signal is split in a first coupler into a major first portion and a minor second portion. A first bandpass filter of inevitable non-linearity receives the first signal portion and produces therefrom a first-bandpass-filtered signal having distortion products collectively of a first power. A second bandpass filter having substantially identical passband and noise characteristics to, but with a non-linearity much greater than, the first bandpass filter receives the second signal portion of the input signal and produces therefrom a second-bandpass-filtered signal which has distortion products substantially collectively equal to the first power. A phase reverser reverses the phase of the second-bandpass-filtered signal relative to the first-bandpass-filtered signal, and the signals are coupled in a second coupler to produce a bandpass-filtered output signal in which the distortion products are substantially canceled. ;The first-bandpass-filtered is preferably amplified in first low noise amplifier, and the second-bandpass-filtered amplified in a second low noise amplifier of variable gain as well as being phase reversed in a phase reverser of variable phase, both so as to (i) “fine tune” the circuit, and (ii) overcome a slight trade-off that is made in the sensitivity of the bandpass filter circuit to the input signal.
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