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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1974
Donald Clyde Cox, New Shrewsbury, NJ (US);
Douglas Otto Reudink, Sea Girt, NJ (US);
Bell Telephone Laboratories Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for accomplishing amplitude equalization between two input signals includes circuitry for generating the sum and the difference of the two signals, mixing the sum and the difference and applying the low-pass filtered version of the mixed resultant as a feedback error signal of very low frequency to an attenuator associated with one of the two input signals. A hybrid combiner may be used to generate the sum and the difference from the two input signals. The phases of the two input signals are unaffected by the amplitude equalization. A particular application of the invention is in a LIND (linear amplification using nonlinear devices) amplifier such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,777,275 issued Dec. 4, 1973 to D. C. Cox.