Inventors:
Bryon L. Kasper - Allentown PA
Osamu Mizuhara - Lakewood NJ
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ
International Classification:
H03F 360
Abstract:
A transversal equalizer is realized by employing variable gain and delay in the amplification branches of a traveling wave amplifier. Specifically, by adjusting the gain and delay in each branch, the traveling wave type transversal equalizer may be adjusted to having a complementary frequency response in order to compensate for linear channel gain and phase ripples. This approach permits the transversal equalizer to be designed without the use of resistive splitter and combiner networks and, therefore, without the use of high gain amplifiers. Without such amplifiers, splitters and combiners, the smaller physical size, which is afforded thereby, allows the transversal equalizer to be easily assembled as a hybrid integrated circuit.