Theoretical analysis and practical considerations for the integrated time-stretching system using dispersive delay line (DDL)

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3449-3457

  Xiang, Bo ^a   Kopa, Anthony ^b   Fu, Zhongtao ^c   Apsel, Alyssa B ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter (BPF); Distortion analysis; Distributed amplifier (DA); Error analysis; Short time Fourier transform (STFT) integrated dispersive delay line (DDL); Time resolution; Time stretching (TS); Time bandwidth product (TBP); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUP DELAY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OSCILLISTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

DISPERSIVE DELAY LINES; DISTORTION ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME STRETCHING; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

EID: 84869238705     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2215623     Document Type: Article

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