• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.11
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• pp.6-12
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• 2010

A sigma-delta modulator based class-D audio amplifier is presented. Parallel digital input is serialized to two-bit output by a fourth-order digital sigma-delta noise shaper. The output of the digital sigma-delta noise shaper is applied to a fourth-order analog sigma-delta modulator whose three-level output drives power switches. The pulse density modulated (PDM) output of the power switches is low-pass filtered by an LC-filter. The PDM output of the power switches is fed back to the input of the analog sigma-delta modulator. The first integrator of the analog sigma-delta modulator is a hybrid of continuous-time (CT) and switched-capacitor (SC) integrator. While the sampled input is applied to SC path, the continuous-time feedback signal is applied to CT path to suppress the noise of the PDM output. The class-D audio amplifier is fabricated in a standard $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS process and operates for the signal bandwidth from 100-Hz to 20-kHz. With 4-${\Omega}$ load, the maximum output power is 18.3-mW. The total harmonic distortion plus noise and dynamic range are 0.035-% and 80-dB, respectively. The modulator consumes 457-uW from 1.2-V power supply.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.215-224
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• 2003

This paper presents an electronic ballast using a novel complex modulation method for the metal halide lamp. The proposed modulation method, which has a modulating signal of swept complex frequency, can eliminate the acoustic resonance more effectively than the conventional modulation method, which has a modulating signal of constant frequency. For the purpose of future application specific integrated circuits (ASIC). the controller of the proposed ballast has been designed only with erasable programmable logic devices (EPLDs), but without a microprocessor. In this paper, detailed proposed modulation schemes are described and experimental results on the proto type 150W metal halide lamp ballast with the proposed modulation method ate discussed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.4A
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• pp.502-511
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• 2000

The Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) modulation technique belongs to the class of nonlinear modulation technique, and it is known to be bandwidth efficient. The GMSK modulation is chosen for the digital cellular phone standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In this paper, an efficient method for implementing all digital GMSK modulator is introduced. The proposed modulator is shown to be simple to implement as well as satisfying the required spectral shape recommended by the ETSI.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.671-676
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• 2015

Cooperative networks eliminate shadow area using relay and enhance communication performance by creating virtual multi input multi output (MIMO) system. In this paper, we analyze the performance of cooperative networks which use coherent modulation scheme in source-relay nodes and differential modulation scheme in relay-destination nodes depending on the relay location. We consider the performance analysis of systems with and without the direct transmission between source and destination node where the direct transmission adopts differential modulation scheme. In addition, the performance of the system with fully differential modulation scheme is compared with the system using partially differential modulation scheme. The performance of system is based on the symbol error rate between source and destination node.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.103-109
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• 2009

We report an efficient jitter reduction technique in an analog fier-optic link employing a Mach-Zehnder modulator followed by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. By adjusting the modulator-bias to $0.089V_{\pi}$, we could increase the RF gain up to 10.65 dB for 10 GHz RF signal and reduce the random jitter by 46.5%, max, at an input optical power of -0.11 dBm to the EDFA.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.279-285
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• 2014

We propose an electrically controllable terahertz wave modulator based on a metamaterial and vanadium dioxide ($VO_2$) thin film. A square loop shape is designed to play the roles of both a resonating metamaterial and a heater to electrically control the conductivity of $VO_2$. The transmission characteristics of the modulator were controlled by voltage. The transmission coefficient of the modulator was stably changed from 0.27 to 0.80 at 470 GHz according to the conductivity values of $VO_2$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.1887-1894
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new switched-capacitor sigma-delta modulator for automotive radars. Developed modulator is used to perform high-resolution analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) of high frequency band signal in a radar system. It has supply voltage of 2.7V, and has body-effect compensated switch configuration with low voltage and low distortion. The modulator has been implemented in a $0.25{\mu}m$ double-poly and triple-metal standard CMOS process, and it has die area of $1.9{\times}1.5mm^{2}$. It showed better total harmonic distortion of 20dB than the conventional bootstrapped circuit at the supply voltage of 2.7V.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.17-22
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• 2008

This paper presents a low-power and small-area pulse width modulator by light intensity for photoflash. Light intensity controller is achieved by using capacitor, photodiode, and comparator. The proposed circuit designs digital circuit to reduce static power consumption except comparator. And IGBT driver has short circuit protection using delay cell. The pulse width modulator has the operating range of $V_{MS}$ from 0.5V to 2.5V and pulse width of output from 0.14ms to 1.65ms at 300Hz. The pulse width modulator fabricated in $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology occupies $0.85mm{\times}0.56mm$. This circuit consumes 3.0mW at 300Hz and 3.0V.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-6
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• 1973

Traveling wave laser phase modulator, which is consist of rectangular waveguide paritially loaded with electrooptic material, is analysed theoretically. The propagation characteristics, electric field, attenuation, and modulation index are obtained in terms of normalized parameters. It is shown that high modulation index is achieved with relatively low modulating power. And also design procedure of modulator is described with particulary refererenece to KDP.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.818-821
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 차량 레이더 시스템용 시그마-델타 변조기를 제안한다. 개발된 변조기는 차량 레이더 시스템에서 고주파 대역 신호의 고해상도 데이터 변환, 즉 아날로그-디지털변환을 수행하는데 사용되며 저전압 및 저 왜곡 특성을 가진 몸체효과 보상형 스위치 구조로 구현되어 있다. 제안된 변조기는 0.25 마이크론 이중 폴리 3-금속 표준 CMOS 공정으로 제작되었고, $1.9{\times}1.5mm^2$의 다이 면적을 점유한다. 제안된 회로는 2.7V의 동작 전압에서 기존의 부트스트랩형 회로보다 약 20dB 향상된 우수한 총 고조파 왜곡 특성을 보였다.