Title :
Cascaded bandpass vth-law devices
Author :
Gupta, Amit Kumar ; Garner, W.B. ; Baghdady, E.J.
Author_Institution :
American Satellite Company, Rockville, USA
Abstract :
The effect of the n-cascaded bandpass vth-law devices on the sum of a strong signal and a weak signal is analysed. It is shown that if any of the nonlinear devices is a hard-limiter, the n-cascaded nonlinearities have the same effect as that of a single hard-limiter. If two such cascaded n vth-law devices (differing in at least one vth-value) or two complex bandpass nonlinearities are connected in parallel, we obtain the generalised form of a `power-division¿ multiplex system which utilises a feed-forward across a limiter technique.
Keywords :
limiters; nonlinear network analysis; signal processing; bandpass nonlinearities; hard-limiter; n-cascaded bandpass vth-law devices; n-cascaded nonlinearities; nonlinear devices; power division multiplex system;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19820631