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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2003
Applicant:
Jean-claude Mage, Palaiseau, FR;
Inventor:
Jean-Claude Mage, Palaiseau, FR;
Assignee:
THALES, Neuilly sur Seine, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The converter of the invention essentially comprises, along the path of the microwave signal to be measured, a series of superconducting loops spaced apart by x/2 and each having a critical current junction facing which an optical waveguide is placed. Each of these loops absorbs, as the case may be, a bit of the wave to be measured, their inductances following an increasing geometric progression of common ratio 2 and their critical currents following a decreasing geometric progression of common ratio ½.