Gennum Corporation

Com Dev Limited

Apu Sivadas

Atul Krishna Gupta

Vasilis Papanikolaou

Rajiv Kumar Shukla

Kenneth Steven Lazaris-Brunner

Bharat Tailor

Ming Yu

William A Fitzpatrick

David John Smith

Hossein Shakiba

David Smith

Transmit amplitude independent adaptive equalizers are provided that compensate for transmission losses in an input signal when the transmit signal amplitude is unknown. Several embodiments are provided, including a first embodiment having an equalizer core, a controllable-swing slicer and an amplitude control loop, a second embodiment having an equalizer core, a fixed-swing slicer and a control loop, a third embodiment having an equalizer core, a variable gain amplifier, and a variable gain amplifier control loop, and a fourth embodiment having an equalizer core, a fixed-swing slicer, a variable gain amplifier, and a variable gain amplifier control loop.

Transmit amplitude independent adaptive equalizer

An adaptive equalizer with a large data rate range is provided. The equalizer comprises an equalizer core, a slicer and an automatic gain control (AGC) loop. The equalizer core is coupled to an input signal from a transmission medium and applies a transfer function to the input signal to compensate for losses incurred in the transmission medium in order to generate a core output signal. The equalizer core is also coupled to a bandwidth control signal that controls a bandwidth of the transfer function. The slicer is coupled to the core output signal and converts the core output signal to a digital output signal having a fixed digital output swing that approximates a transmission swing of the input signal prior to transmission over the transmission medium. The AGC loop is coupled to the core output signal and the digital output signal and compares the core output signal with the digital output signal in order to generate the bandwidth control signal.

Adaptive equalizer with large data rate range

An externally temperature-compensated microwave resonator comprises a microwave resonator and an external temperature compensator. The microwave resonator is a multi-cavity waveguide. The cavities are configured side-by-side and coupled through irises. The external temperature compensator is oriented and configured to effect a change in volume of the cavities when the resonator and compensator undergo a temperature gradient. The compensator deflects a wall portion of the resonator to accordingly counteract a change in volume of the cavity caused by a temperature gradient.

Microwave resonator having an external temperature compensator

A microwave filter has a set of irises to couple cavities within the filter. A trifurcated iris comprises a central iris and a pair of peripheral irises. The peripheral irises are configured and oriented to couple a primary mode having a magnetic field in the axial direction of a filter cavity. The central iris is configured and oriented to couple a secondary mode having a magnetic field in the azimuthal direction of the filter cavity. The configuration of the trifurcated iris is further oriented to minimize the influence of higher order signals such as the TE mode. The peripheral iris are oriented at null points of the primary TE mode and the central iris is also located at a null point. An input and an output iris are configured to receive electromagnetic energy in the axial direction of the filter. The input and output irises are oriented to minimize signals in the TE secondary mode and any TM modes.

Side-coupled microwave filter with circumferentially-spaced irises

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