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Fig. 6. — The Function X = g{f>) defined by Eq. (2.9). 



Fig. 7. — Performance of 3/2 — power-law rectifier as an envelope detector with low-imped- 

 ance signal generator. 



To express the output in terms of a source voltage f o in series with an 

 impedance equal to the real constant value ro at t,he signal frequency and 

 zero at all other frequencies, we write 



ra 



ai 



3C,P3/2(1 _ X)2 



:^7|— /^(^f, -I;3r^-j (2.11) 



