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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2009
Chady Kharrat, Sillans, FR;
Eric Colinet, Meylan, FR;
Chady Kharrat, Sillans, FR;
Eric Colinet, Meylan, FR;
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An array of coupled resonators including: an input unit that supplies an input electrical signal; an electrical excitation unit that electrically excites N coupled resonators of the array using the input electrical signal, wherein the electrical excitation unit includes, for each of the N coupled resonators, an actuator, connected to the input unit, that actuates a respective one of the N coupled resonators according to the input electrical signal, and a variable gain input amplifier that amplifies actuation of a respective one of the N coupled resonators; and a controller that controls a specific setting of a variable gain of each of the variable gain input amplifier.