THE ANALYSIS OF NOISY NON-LINEAR DEVICES BY MEANS OF GENERALIZED RANDOM PROCESSES

Abstract

The mathematical description of noise by means of Generalized Random Processes is presented. The effects on the noise distribution of linear filters (amplifiers) is discussed and related to conventional filter theory. The modification of the noise by a quadratic device is then treated, and this formalism is then applied to the analysis of the noise performance of a correlation detector and a conventional square-law detector. The conventional detector is shown to have a superior signal-to-noise ratio.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0653182

Entities

People

  • Donn G. Shankland

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Classification
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Measurement
  • Noise
  • Power Measurement
  • Random Variables
  • Security
  • Transfer Functions
  • White Noise

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  • Electronics Engineering
  • Statistical inference.