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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2014
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Tina P. Srivastava, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Matthew A. Morton, Tewksbury, MA (US);
John Cangeme, Tewksbury, MA (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A transmit drive circuit with high signal to noise and frequency agility. In one embodiment, a transmit circuit includes a digital to analog converter, an amplifier, and a signal to noise enhancer, the signal to noise enhancer being a nonlinear passive device that attenuates low-power signals while transmitting high power signals with little loss. The signal to noise enhancer may be fabricated as a thin film of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) epitaxially grown on a gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrate, the GGG substrate secured to a microwave transmission line from the input to the output of the signal to noise enhancer, such that the thin film of yttrium iron garnet is close to the transmission line.