US3582803A - Electrical networks having the properties of circulators - Google Patents

Electrical networks having the properties of circulators Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US3582803A
US3582803A US805483A US3582803DA US3582803A US 3582803 A US3582803 A US 3582803A US 805483 A US805483 A US 805483A US 3582803D A US3582803D A US 3582803DA US 3582803 A US3582803 A US 3582803A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
port
network
stage
paths
amplifier
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US805483A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Philip Ernest Greenaway
John Mortimer Rollet
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
POSTMASTER GENERAL UK
Original Assignee
POSTMASTER GENERAL UK
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by POSTMASTER GENERAL UK filed Critical POSTMASTER GENERAL UK
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US3582803A publication Critical patent/US3582803A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03H—IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS
    • H03H11/00—Networks using active elements
    • H03H11/02—Multiple-port networks
    • H03H11/38—One-way transmission networks, i.e. unilines

Definitions

  • the transmission paths may con- Field of Search 330/53, 56; sist of differential amplifiers respective to the pairs of paths 333/ 1 .1 together with associated resistors.
  • a multiport circulator having n ports is a circuit in which (if the ports are numbered consecutively from 1 to n) a signal applied at any port k appears at the next port k+l but at no other port, when all the ports are correctly terminated. A signal applied at port n appears at port I.
  • a diagram of a four-port circulator in which all ports are terminated by matching impedances Z is illustrated in FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
  • Hitherto circulators have been constructed to operate at microwave frequencies, using ferrite material but are not suited to use at low frequencies. It is an object of this invention to provide a circulator which can be used at low frequencies.
  • a circulator comprises a plurality of ports arranged in sequence in a closed cycle, wherein the ports have associated therewith respective pairs of paths of equal and opposite gains, the pairs of paths being connected in parallel from common input points respective to the pairs of paths to common output points respective to the pairs of paths and connections from the ports to one path of the respective pairs of paths so that signals can be fed to and taken from the one path, chosen so as to provide the desired sense of output signals, independently of the other path, the output point of the paths associated with any one port being connected to the input point of the paths associated with the next port in the sequence.
  • Circulators in accordance with the invention can be constructed which are capable of operation down to zero frequency.
  • the differential amplifiers each comprise a long-tailed transistor pair including emitter feedback resistors; each long-tailed pair may be fed from a constant current source and have its output connected, with or without phase reversal, to the next port by a common collector transistor stage.
  • FIG. I illustrates a diagram of a four-port circulator.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a basic form of part of a network embodying the invention
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a specific form of network of the type shown in FIG. 2;
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate individual stages of another network embodying the invention
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a network with the properties of a threeport circulator employing stages as shown in FIG. 5;
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate circuits derived from FIG. 4.
  • FIG. 2 shows, schematically, any three successive ports of a network with the properties of a multiport circulator embodying the invention.
  • a differential amplifier G an amplifier the output voltage of which is proportional to the difference in potential between the two inputs to the amplifier
  • One terminal P1 of each port is connected to one terminal of the amplifier of that port and the other terminal P2 of each port is connected to ground.
  • the ports are closed by external impedances Z l 2 etc.
  • Each amplifier e.g.
  • amplifier G has its output applied to both input terminals of the amplifier (G associated with the next port (k+1) through two separate potential dividers shown in the drawing as (2 qZk and Zkd, qZ where q may differ from port to port.
  • the ratios of the dividers connected to the inputs of any amplifier are equal, so that the differential input signal to the amplifier from the previous amplifier is zero; consequently a signal applied at one port appears at the next port in the sequence but is not passed on to any other ports.
  • the terminating impedances (e.g. 2,, for port k) forming part of one of the potential dividers for the amplifier (0,.) associated with that port and the input impedance at each port can be made equal to the terminating impedance by suitable choice of impedance values in the potential dividers or by internal impedances connected in parallel with each port.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates two ports of a network embodying the invention and using differential transistor amplifiers.
  • Each amplifier comprises a long-tailed transistor pair T1, T2 having emitter feedback resistors R1, R2 to make the voltage gain insensitive to transistor parameters and to produce a high input resistance.
  • the emitter current is supplied by a transistor T3 connected as a constant current generator to produce a high common mode rejection.
  • An output is shown taken from the collector of transistor T2 but could be taken from the collector of transistor T1 if phase reversal is required.
  • the output of a differential-input amplifier long-tailed pair of one stage is connected to the inputs of the transistors T1, T2 of the next port via potential dividers, e.g. the output of the amplifier T1, T2 of port 1 is fed to the inputs of the amplifier of port 2 via three-element potential dividers Z2A, A28, ZZC, and Z2X, ZZY, ZZZ, where Z is an external terminating impedance.
  • a transistor T4 is used as a common collector stage to reduce the loading effect of the potential dividers on the output of the long-tailed pair.
  • the potential divider impedances are chosen to make the DC potential at each port equal to zero with respect to ground and to give the required signal gain between ports.
  • the threeelement potential dividers are arranged to satisfy these requirements simultaneously.
  • the gain is equal to the voltage gain of the amplifier divided by the loss in the associated potential dividers and is commonly chosen to be unity.
  • a network embodying the invention may be built using a stage for each port identical to the stage shown in FIG. 4.
  • This stage contains a differential-input operational amplifier DA, that is, a ifferential-input amplifier having very high gain, very high input impedance and negligibly low output impedance.
  • the stage also incorporates potential dividers Z pZ, and Z,,, pZ where p is a factor which may differ from stage to stage. 2,, is an external terminating impedance.
  • the differential voltage gain is very high (typically of the order of 50,000) so that the potential difference between the input terminals is extremely small compared to the signal voltages; consequently, the input terminals can be regarded as virtually at the same potential.
  • the circuit of FIG. 4 is derived directly from one stage of the circuit of FIG. 2 by employing the operational amplifier in the conventional way as a balanced differential amplifier with defined voltage gain.
  • the gain of the amplifier is Rdk the input terminals being a and b. If required the terminals a and b can be interchanged so that the port is connected to terminal b.
  • This connection gives a phase reversal between the input applied to the port and the output.
  • the resistors R and R have resistances which are high compared with the impedances in the potential dividers but, if this is not so, the values of 2,, and Z can be so chosen to take account of the shunting effects of resistors R and R
  • Two circuits which may be derived from the circuit of FIG. 4 are shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. These circuits are obtained by applying star-delta transformations to the circuit of FIG. 4 and eliminating redundant impedances.
  • the circuit of FIG. 8 gives a phase reversal; the circuit of FIG. 7
  • the operation of this circuit can be explained as follows with reference to FIG. 5.
  • the circuit acts as a noninverting amplifier for e,, (using the superposition theorem), the gain G, depending only on impedances L and M.
  • and G, I are made equal by suitable choice of the impedances .l, K, L, M, and points f and g are joined, the
  • FIG. 6 A circuit of a three-port network having ports I, 2, 3 using the simplified stage of FIG. 5 is shown in FIG. 6.
  • the impedances 8,, B, etc. are the matching or terminating impedances.
  • this circuit it is convenient to use the two properties of an operational amplifier, with external negative feedback applied, mentioned in the description of FIG. 4, viz: (i) negligible current flows in to either input terminal and (ii) the potential difference between the two input terminals is negligible and they may be regarded as at virtually the same potential.
  • a generator of impedance B is connected to port 1 such that the voltage appearing at this port is v,; the other two ports are terminated with the matching impedances B, and 8;.
  • V the output voltage
  • the voltage v, appearing at port 2 is:
  • V Since V, is zero, all the signal voltages and currents associated with port 3 are zero and hence V is zero which was assumed at the beginning of this explanation.
  • the gain between ports k and k+l is:
  • phase reversal between ports operational amplifiers with a differential output may be used or a signal ended amplifier connected as a differential amplifier may be used as in FIG. 4 where the input terminals a, b may be interchanged to give phase reversal.
  • the input impedance at a port can be made equal to the impedance terminating the port if required but this is not necessary for operation as a circulator.
  • An electrical network including a plurality of similar stages, each stage having an input terminal and an output terminal, two signal transmission paths connected in parallel from the input terminal of one stage to its output terminal, the paths including amplifying means of equal gains, but one of which produces at the output terminal the inverse of the signal from the other path at the output terminal, so that a signal applied to the input terminal of the stage is self-cancelling at its output terminal, and a connection from a port respective to the stage to a particular one of the paths to feed signals to the path or derive signals from it independently of the signals in the other path, the stages being connected in series, output terminal to input terminal, in a closed ring, whereby the network has the properties to a circulator connected to the ports.
  • a network as claimed in claim 4 in which the long-tailed pair has its output connected with or without phase reversal to the next port by a common collector transistor stage.

Landscapes

  • Amplifiers (AREA)
US805483A 1968-03-15 1969-03-10 Electrical networks having the properties of circulators Expired - Lifetime US3582803A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB1276668 1968-03-15

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US3582803A true US3582803A (en) 1971-06-01

Family

ID=10010737

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US805483A Expired - Lifetime US3582803A (en) 1968-03-15 1969-03-10 Electrical networks having the properties of circulators

Country Status (3)

Country Link
US (1) US3582803A (da)
CA (1) CA941470A (da)
GB (1) GB1227812A (da)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3860893A (en) * 1973-01-02 1975-01-14 Lignes Telegraph Telephon Wide band active circuit three-port circulator for ultra-high frequencies and microwaves
US3987381A (en) * 1974-04-22 1976-10-19 International Standard Electric Corporation Electronic controllable negative resistance arrangement

Families Citing this family (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US9197170B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2015-11-24 Viasat, Inc. Active lumped element circulator

Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2748352A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-05-29 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Non-reciprocal wave transmission networks
US2849684A (en) * 1953-07-31 1958-08-26 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Non-reciprocal wave transmission
US2867772A (en) * 1956-06-29 1959-01-06 Philip J Allen Microwave circulator
US3377570A (en) * 1966-04-18 1968-04-09 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Four port ferrite circulator having slot symmetrically located between adjacent conducting arms

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2748352A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-05-29 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Non-reciprocal wave transmission networks
US2849684A (en) * 1953-07-31 1958-08-26 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Non-reciprocal wave transmission
US2867772A (en) * 1956-06-29 1959-01-06 Philip J Allen Microwave circulator
US3377570A (en) * 1966-04-18 1968-04-09 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Four port ferrite circulator having slot symmetrically located between adjacent conducting arms

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3860893A (en) * 1973-01-02 1975-01-14 Lignes Telegraph Telephon Wide band active circuit three-port circulator for ultra-high frequencies and microwaves
US3987381A (en) * 1974-04-22 1976-10-19 International Standard Electric Corporation Electronic controllable negative resistance arrangement

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
GB1227812A (da) 1971-04-07
CA941470A (en) 1974-02-05

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US3919660A (en) Amplifiers with impedance-matched inputs and outputs
US4041252A (en) Transformerless two-wire/four-wire hybrid with DC sourcing capability
US3633120A (en) Amplifier circuit
GB1302605A (da)
US3571739A (en) Multimode hybrid-coupled fan-out and fan-in array
US3564439A (en) Differential amplifier
US3332038A (en) Multichannel system comprising matching resistors of the same order of magnitude as the filter networks to which they are coupled
US3667065A (en) Feed-forward amplifier having arbitrary gain-frequency characteristic
US4525677A (en) Differential amplifier having high common-mode rejection ratio
US3736517A (en) Active delay-equalizer network
US3582803A (en) Electrical networks having the properties of circulators
US3573647A (en) Electrical impedance converting networks
US2733304A (en) Koenig
US3501716A (en) Gyrator network using operational amplifiers
US3529099A (en) Telephone subset with resistive hybrid network
GB1473067A (en) Broad band directional coupler
US2685066A (en) Impedance inversion networks
US3748588A (en) Impedance-matched amplifiers
US3820036A (en) Hybrid feedback amplifier
US3619797A (en) Operational amplifier
US2794864A (en) Nonreciprocal circuits employing negative resistance elements
US3700832A (en) N-port circulator
US3716729A (en) All-pass and low-pass filter comprised of active element circulators
US3388337A (en) Hybrid balanced push-pull amplifier
US3611165A (en) Parallel pass and filters having multiple negative feedback paths