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Ian Jackson wrote:
I think that the principle of this circuit is similar to the constant-impedance equaliser - such as used to compensate for the loss of a length of coaxial cable over a wide range of frequencies (very common in the cable TV world). This is frequency-selective in that it has essentially zero loss at a pre-determined 'top' frequency (say 870MHz), with progressively increasing loss at lower frequencies (the inverse of the cable loss). As it has a constant (75 ohm) input/output impedance, it is therefore resonant at all frequencies from 0 to 870MHz. I've designed a couple of coax loss compensators, for very high speed digital oscilloscope delay lines. They had to preserve the fidelity of a high speed step to within a very few percent, which amounted to very precise compensation of both the frequency and phase response. Bandwidths were about 2 and 9 GHz. The dominant loss mechanism in high quality coax over those frequency ranges is due to conductor skin effect which is proportional to the square root of frequency, so no single network will do the compensation. I used a number of bridged tee networks to do the job, each correcting a different part of the time response (equivalent to different frequency ranges), in some cases transforming them to other topologies to accommodate unavoidable stray impedances due to components and layout. The circuits were used in the Tektronix 11802 and TDS820 oscilloscopes. Roy Lewallen, W7EL |
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