US 3,938,056 AGranted

Method and apparatus for enhancing the output from a traveling wave tube

AssigneeTeledyne, Inc.

InventorNorman H. Pond

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Abstract

Method and apparatus are described for reducing amplifier distortion by establishing a first signal at a first frequency to be amplified in an amplifier which while amplifying the first signal produces a second undesired signal at another frequency, producing on a cycle by cycle basis of the first signal a third signal at the other frequency, adjusting by no more than substantially 180.degree. the relative phase and amplitude of the first and third signals for mutual cancellation of the second and third signals and then amplifying the first signal in the amplifier and reducing the power of signals at the other frequency relative to the power of the amplifier signal at the first frequency. Examples are given where the second signal is a harmonic or an intermodulation frequency signal of the first signal.

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Dependent claims

A microwave amplification circuit comprising:

a first microwave amplifying means of at least an octave bandwidth having an input and an output,
a second microwave amplifying means of at least
an octave bandwidth having an input connected to receive and amplify signals from the output of said first amplifier,
both of said amplifying means constructed to amplify a fundamental microwave signal and producing a second harmonic signal of such fundamental signal during amplification of said fundamental signal, and
a dispersive delay line connected in circuit between the output of said first amplifying means and the input of said second amplifying means,
said delay line constructed to shift the phase between a fundamental signal and a second harmonic of such fundamental signal from the output of said first amplifying means at the input of said second amplifying means by less than one cycle for optimum suppression at frequencies within at least plus or minus 20 percent of the upper frequency of the octave.

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