232 results about "Multistage amplifier" patented technology

There is disclosed a multi-stage amplifier comprising: a first amplifier stage; a second amplifier stage; a first voltage supply stage arranged to provide a supply voltage to the first amplifier in dependence on an average power of a signal to be amplified; and a second voltage supply stage arranged to provide a supply voltage to the second amplifier in dependence on an instantaneous power of a signal to be amplified.

A multi-stage amplifier circuit arranged to take advantage of the desirable characteristics of non-field-plate and field plate transistors when amplifying a signal. One embodiment of a multi-stage amplifier according to the present invention comprises a non-field-plate transistor and a field-plate transistor. The field-plate transistor has at least one field plate arranged to reduce the electric field strength within the field plate transistor during operation. The non-field plate transistor is connected to the field plate transistor, with the non-field-plate providing current gain and the field plate transistor providing voltage gain. In one embodiment the non-field-plate and field plate transistors are coupled together in a cascode arrangement.

A programmable multi-stage amplifier includes a 1^st programmable amplifier, a 2^nd programmable amplifier, and a control module. The 1^st and 2^nd programmable amplifiers are coupled in series to amplify an input signal. Each of the 1^st and 2^nd programmable amplifiers is operably coupled to receive independent gain control signals from the control module. The control module generates the gain control signals by determining the overall gain desired for the programmable multi-stage amplifier and a corresponding gain for each of the 1^st and 2^nd programmable amplifiers. The factors in which the control module makes this determination are based on an optimization of at least one of the power level of the programmable multi-stage amplifier, the noise factor for the programmable multi-stage amplifier, and/or linearity of the programmable multi-stage amplifier.

A compensation circuit is provided for an amplifier including at least first and second amplifier stage. The circuit includes a first capacitance including one end that communicates with an input of the first amplifier stage. An amplifier includes a first gain, an input that communicates with an opposite end of the first capacitance, and an output. A second capacitance includes a first end that communicates with the output of the amplifier and an opposite end that communicates with an input of the second amplifier stage. A first impedence includes one end that communicates with the input of the first amplifier stage and an opposite end that communicates with an output of the second amplifier stage.

The present invention provides a power amplifier module featuring that: its output power characteristic smoothly changes as the input control voltage changes; and its control sensitivity is stable over a wide dynamic range. By same means, idling current for gain setting is supplied to a single amplifier element or all of multiple stages of amplifier elements of the power amplifier module. By making this idling current behave so as to exponentially change, relative to input control voltage, the invention enables output power control proportional to the input control voltage.

A fiber laser system includes a fiber mode-locking oscillator, a fiber stretcher, a multistage amplifier chain, a pulse picker, and a compressor wherein at least a device for performing a pulse shaping, a spectral shaping and a polarization shaping and a combination thereof is implemented in the fiber mode-locking oscillator, the fiber stretcher, the multistage amplifier chain, the pulse picker, and the compressor for managing and reducing nonlinear effects in the fiber laser system. The combinations of pulse shaping, spectral shaping and polarization shaping in different stages of the fiber laser system enables the fiber laser system to generate a short pulse of <200 fs and a high energy laser in a range between 1 uJ to over mJ and an average power from 1 W to 100 W.

The invention discloses a circuit structure which utilizes an adjustable inductor and improves linearity of a power amplifier as well as a method. The circuit structure contains an on-chip transformercoupling input network, a transistor amplifier circuit, an output network, a control and bias generating circuit and an envelope detection circuit; the transistor amplifier circuit is respectively connected with the on-chip transformer coupling input network and the output network; the transistor amplifier circuit is provided with a capacitor-inductor parallel resonance loop as well as a capacitor and the adjustable inductor connected in parallel in the capacitor-inductor parallel resonance loop; and the envelope detection circuit is connected with the control and bias generating circuit, detects an envelope signal of a radio frequency signal of the input network or output network and generates the required bias signal and a control signal for the adjustable inductor. The circuit structure disclosed by the invention realizes dynamic and adjustable low-resistance bias loop by adopting a parallel adjustable LC loop way, AM-AM nonlinearity is improved, and the adjustable inductor eliminates AM-PM nonlinearity; and the circuit structure can be conveniently used in an inter-stage matching and impedance transformer network of a multistage amplifier, and cascade connection of a multistage radio frequency power amplifier can be realized conveniently.

An optical amplifier control circuit and method controls transients and avoids the problems associated with measuring gain. The input power level is detected and amplified by a transient control setting to provide a desired gain value against which is compared the output power level. This transient control error may be used in conjunction with a constant power error and/or a constant current error such that the lowest of the error values is used to drive the pump laser. Current and power feedback signals and settings are used to derive the error values. Multiple pump lasers per stage may also be controlled and a multi-stage amp having a cascaded structure may be realized using the inventive techniques.

Method and system are disclosed for providing an improved linearity Gilbert mixer. The Gilbert mixer of the present invention includes a conventional mixer core coupled to a high linearity, multistage amplifier. The multistage amplifier includes two or more transistor stages connected together in a global feedback arrangement. The global feedback provides a greater loop gain for the amplifier than the local feedback arrangement, thereby increasing the linearity of the amplifier. In addition, having more than one transistor stage in the amplifier serves to increase the isolation of the RF input signal from the LO input signal. Furthermore, by providing parallel output stages in the multistage amplifier, several mixer cores may be driven from the same source while sharing the feedback mechanism.

The invention relates to a large-bandwidth continuous-time common-mode feedback circuit and a design method thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: designing an ideal common-mode signal; detecting the common-mode value of an operational amplification output signal through a common-mode detection circuit; comparing the detected common-mode value of the operational amplification output signal with that of the ideal common-mode signal; after amplifying an error signal through the common-mode feedback circuit, outputting two common-mode feedback control signals fed back to the drain electrode of a biasing tube of an operational amplification biasing circuit so that the whole common-mode feedback circuit forms a single-stage amplifier to ensure that the common-mode feedback circuit has enough phase margin; and finally stabilizing the operational-amplified output common-mode point on the ideal common-mode value according to the negative feedback function of common-mode feedback. The invention overcomes the defects that the traditional continuous-time common-mode feedback circuit is a multi-stage amplifier and has poor stability, and ensures that the common-mode feedback circuit is a one-stage common-source cathode-input amplifier through adjusting the feedback point of the common-mode feedback; and the common-mode feedback circuit has favorable stability and is suitable for large-bandwidth ultrahigh-speed full-differential analog circuits.

This invention provides a multi-stage amplifier incorporating DC offset cancellation. The amplifier has a plurality of series-connected gain stages each of which comprises a differential amplifier unit generating a pair of differential outputs from a pair of differential inputs. In particular, a trailing stage in the plurality of gain stages comprises a digital DC offset cancellation module configured to compensate for a DC offset of the trailing stage's differential amplifier unit. The digital DC offset cancellation module comprises a comparator coupled to the pair of differential outputs of the trailing stage's differential amplifier unit for receiving such differential outputs as inputs for the comparator. Preferably, the comparator has an inherent DC offset that is substantially small. It is preferable that a non-trailing stage of the amplifier comprises an analog DC offset cancellation module for compensating for a DC offset of the non-trailing stage.

A multi-stage amplifier includes first and second amplifier stages, and first and second capacitors. The first amplifier stage includes a input line having a first input end and a second input end; an input terminal block connected to the second input end; an amplifier circuit amplifying a first signal input to the first input end; an output line having a first output end where the first signal amplified is output, and a second output end; and an output terminal block connected to the second output end. The second amplifier stage includes components similar to that of the first amplifier stage. The first capacitor is connected between the first output end of the first amplifier stage and the first input end of the second amplifier stage. The second capacitor is connected to any one of the input and output terminal blocks of the first and second amplifier stages.