Vector modulator

• US 6,531,935 B1
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Issued: 03/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
• Original Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
• Inventors: Fel, Nicolas, Russat, Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benny
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAKAOKA, DEAN O
• Application Number:
  US09/719,809
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 333/139, 332/170, 332/44
• US Class Current: 333/139
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 1/60 with one sideband wholly or partially suppressed

Abstract

An analogue phase shifter with vector modulator is envisioned. The analogue phase shifter has an input stage that provides the generation of a pseudo-basis of four vectors. The analogue phase shifter has a multiphase filter. The analogue phase shifter has an output stage that controls the amplitde of the basis vectors, and acts to recombine them. The input stase is made with a phase opposition signal generator and a multiphase filter. The input stase is made of four variable attenuators. The attenuators are for separate control of the amplitude of each of the basis vectors. The output stage also has a common output providing the summation of four quadrature channels. In one case, the output stage includes two differential amplifiers. In another case the quadrature channels are connected to the common output through buffer amplifier stages, each followed by a summation capacitor.

Claims

1. An analogue phase shifter with vector modulator comprising:

an input stage, providing the generation of a pseudo-basis of four vectors and comprising a multiphase filter;

an output stage, for controlling the amplitude of the basis vectors, and to recombine them;

the input stage comprising;

a phase opposition signal generator; and

a multiphase filter;

the input stage comprising;

four variable attenuators for separate control of the amplitude of each of the basis vectors;

a common output providing the summation of four quadrature channels; and

wherein the output stage includes two differential amplifiers isolating the variable attenuators from the malliphase filter.

2. An analogue phase shifter with vector modulator comprising:

an input stage, providing the generation of a pseudo-basis of four vectors and comprising a multiphase filter;

an output stage, for controlling the amplitude of the basis vectors, and to recombine them;

the input stage comprising;

a phase opposition signal generator; and

a multiphase filter;

the input stage comprising;

four variable attenuators for separate control of the amplitude of each of the basis vectors;

a common output providing the summation of four quadrature channels; and

wherein the quadrature channels are connected to the common output trough buffer amplifier stages, each followed by a summation capacitor.