KEGENERATION OF BINARY MICROWAVE PULSES 



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' GATING 

 PULSE 



INPUT 



OUTPUT 



Fig. 15A — Low-frequency equivalent of the partial regenerator. 



DESCRIPTION OF REGENERATOR 



This device regenerates pulses by performing on them the operations 

 of ''slicing" and retiming. 

 An ideal slicer is a device with an input-output characteristics such as 

 shown by the dashed lines of Fig. 15C. It is seen that for all input levels 

 below the so-called slicing level transmission through the device is zero 

 but that for all amplitudes greater than this value the output level is 

 finite and constant. Thus, all input voltages which are less than the slic- 

 ing level have no effect upon the output whereas all input voltages 

 greater than the slicing level produce the same amplitude of output. 

 Normally conditions are adjusted so that the slicing level is at one-half 



INPUT LEVEL 



Fig. 15B — Characteristics of the separate branches with ditterential bias. 



