APPROXIMATE BAND-PASS LIMITER ENVELOPE DISTRIBUTIONS

Abstract

An approximate distribution is computed for the envelope of sine wave plus noise after passage through a wide-band filter, limiter and narrowband filter. As the input bandwidth to the limiter increases, it is shown that the output envelope distribution converges to the usual sine wave in noise envelope distribution, without limiting, but with a definite 1.4 db loss. First-order correction terms are supplied which make it possible to compute first-order statistics for the output envelope when the output signal-to-noise ratio is on the order of one. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0274684

Entities

People

  • Irving S. Reed
  • Worthie Doyle

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Science
  • Information Science
  • Narrowband
  • Order Statistics
  • Sine Waves
  • Statistics
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Statistical inference.