Artificial transmission line
In telecommunication, an artificial transmission line is a two-port electrical network that has the characteristic impedance, transmission time delay, phase shift, or other parameter(s) of a real transmission line. It can be used to simulate a real transmission line in one or more of these respects.[1]
Early artificial lines were used in telephony research and took the form of a cascade of lattice phase equalisers to provide the necessary delay. The lattice phase circuit was invented by Otto Zobel in the 1920s.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ Federal Standard 1037C
- ^ Zobel, O J, Phase-shifting network, US patent 1 792 523, filed 12 March 1927, issued 17 Feb 1931.
- ^ Zobel, O J, "Theory and design of uniform and composite electric wave filters", Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 2 (1923), pp. 1–46.