Highly efficient switched‐mode transmitter using a current mode class‐D RF amplifier

This article presents a switched‐mode transmitter architecture using a current mode class‐D (CMCD) amplifier. To achieve high average efficiency for a modulated signal the envelope of the complex baseband signal is transformed into pulses such that the CMCD amplifier is operated either at its peak efficiency or completely switched off. The CMCD amplifier has been designed based on single‐tone active harmonic load‐pull measurements to achieve a power‐added efficiency (PAE) of 61.5% with 25 W output power at 900 MHz using LDMOS FETs. Removing the losses of the demodulation filter and of the amplifier a 10% higher efficiency than in an ideal class‐B amplifier can be obtained for burst‐mode operation with a peak‐to‐average power ratio of 10 dB. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2010.     

多级染料激光放大器中激光增益与放大自发辐射强度的理论研究

利用激光增益和放大自发辐射 (ASE)理论 ,对不同条件下的染料激光放大器的激光增益和ASE强度进行了数值计算。分析了当入射光强远小于和大于有效饱和光强时 ,激光增益和ASE强度与入射光相对强度的关系 ,讨论了在两种条件下ASE系数以及染料池端面反射系数对激光增益和ASE成分的影响。最后利用这些结果 ,对连续激光的多级染料放大系统的优化设计进行了讨论。     

开关式高频功率放大器的稳态分析

本文对CUk电路用于高频功率放大作了较详细的稳态分析，深入探讨了这种放大器工作在诸振状态和失谐状态下电路的工作原理，着重说明了开关器件所承受的电压和电流。     

Multistage solid-state power amplifier design by a new alternative synthesis technique

For the first time, the numerical real-frequency technique has been applied to the design of a nonlinear power amplifier. This synthesis technique does not require any transistor model by directly using measured large-signal S-parameters of the power transistor device. The double power-frequency dependence of these S-parameters requires the use of a bidimensional interpolation (spline functions). With the Levenberg–Marquardt optimization and large-signal S-parameters, a specific CAD program optimizes the added-power in order to synthesize the matching networks of the PA. The simulated and measured results of two S-band power amplifiers validate the new synthesis approach. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 14, 87–98, 2004.     

光脉冲在半导体光放大器中传输的计算机模拟

提出了一个用于描述脉冲在半导体光放大器(SOA)中传播的模型,此模型主要考虑了半导体光放大器内载流子加热(CH)、光谱烧孔(SHB)、双光子吸收(TPA)和非线性折射率(NR)这些非线性效应以及群速色散和ASE噪声对放大器性能的影响.介绍了基于此模型编制的SOA模拟软件,软件可以模拟SOA的输入-输出过程,即给定输入端的脉冲复振幅即可求出输出端的脉冲复振幅.软件由几个功能模块组成,这些功能模块可以复用于更大的模拟系统.     

Autonomous indoor ultrasonic positioning system based on a low-cost conditioning circuit

This work presents a low cost 3-D location system based on ultrasonics and implemented with low-cost FPGAs. The mobile nodes of the system use distance estimation to several anchor points in order to trilaterate their positions with an accuracy of few centimeters. The ultrasonic transducers are handled with an ad hoc conditioning circuit based on instrumental amplifiers which provides high amplification keeping low noise. The proposed system is autonomous so there is no need of an external PC or other devices. A prototype of the system has been attached to a mobile robot to check the viability of the location system in a real scenario.     

Robust design of CMOS amplifiers oriented to settling‐time specification

In this paper, we propose a new approach for the robust design of complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor amplifiers based on settling‐time specifications. The approach is based on the definition of the separation factors and on the analysis of their role in the settling time. We define a design strategy for being certain that an OTA satisfies the settling‐time constraint under any statistical variation of process or design parameters. The proposed strategy is applied to the transistor level design of a two‐stage amplifier and a three‐stage one. Simulation results, in good agreement with theory, confirm the validity of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Diode-pumped medium-aperture-size square Nd,Y:CaF2 rod amplifier for Inertial Confinement Fusion laser drivers

We demonstrate, for the first time, an 12 mm × 12 mm 0.5%Nd,5% Y:CaF₂ crystal rod having a uniformly-distributed fluorescence spectrum and capable of operating as an amplifying medium at high repetition frequencies. A small gain of 2.7 is experimentally achieved at repetition frequency of 10 Hz for a pump center wavelength of 802 nm, power and absorption efficiency, 61.2 kW and 63.7%, respectively. Spatial-uniformity degradation of the output near-field beam distribution is observed, which should be attributed to the inhomogeneity of Nd,Y:CaF₂ crystal. For a pump power of 61.2 kW, the stored energy of Nd,Y:CaF₂ amplifier is 3.73 J. When the input energy is 50 mJ, the output laser energy is 1.4 J of extraction efficiency up to 37.53% after four-pass amplification.     

MASH ΣΔ modulators with a noise-shaped two-step ADC in the second stage

In this paper, a multi-stage noise-shaping (MASH) sigma-delta (ΣΔ) modulator is proposed to be used in low oversampling ratio (OSR) applications. It utilizes a noise-shaped two-step (NSTS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in the second stage and benefits its inter-stage gain to provide an extra attenuation of the quantization noise such that the same specifications of a traditional modulator are achieved but with a lower order of noise-shaping. Furthermore, large number of bits is resolved in the second stage while equal number of comparators is used. Compared to the single-loop NSTS ADC, in the proposed structure, the complexity problem of the feedback path and coefficient spreading are eliminated. As an example, a MASH 2-1 sigma-delta modulator has been designed and simulated in a 90 nm CMOS process using Spectre. The achieved resolution is 13.44 effective number of bits in 6.25 MHz signal bandwidth while consuming 19.6 mW power from a single 1 V supply. The sampling frequency is 100 MHz and the simulated figure of merit is 141 fJ/conv-step which shows the efficiency of the proposed modulator.