delay line


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delay line

n
(Electronics) a device in which a known delay time is introduced in the transmission of a signal. An acoustic delay line delays a sound wave by circulating it through a liquid or solid medium
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Noun1.delay line - a circuit designed to introduce a calculated delay into the transmission of a signal
acoustic delay line, sonic delay line - a delay line based on the time of propagation of sound waves
circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit - an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
electromagnetic delay line - a delay line based on the time of propagation of electromagnetic waves
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The resolution of the self-heterodyne measurement setup is determined by optical fiber delay line length, L, where the delay time, [[tau].sub.delay] = [n.sub.g]/c, is ~5 [micro]s/km x Lkm.
(1,2) Such issues are associated with analysis and synthesis of the MLB communication lines for high-performance computing systems for the subnanosecond time range, including special switched meander delay line structures, as well as development of software applications to support new pre-design simulation techniques for multilayer PCBs with the flexible topology of communication lines.
The simplest TDC is based on inverter delay line. Its resolution is inversely proportional to the time interval, which can be measured with such TDC, i.e.
The differential feeding line of Port 1 consists of a power divider and a half-wavelength delay line. And a quarter-wavelength impedance transformer is used to achieve good impedance match.
With increasing tissue depth, the reflected light echoes from the deep tissue layers travel farther to the detector located at the zero delay line. Because these echoes have lower signal strength and higher frequency, the spectrometer cannot differentiate them.
A critical part of the camera set-up is the crash recorder, which is based on delay line linked to the Stern camera, which is continuously recording video.
Phase Delay of the Meander Delay Line Prototype Experimental prototype of the microstrip meander DL (Fig.
Fast delay line is used to acquire the signal in real time while slow delay line is used to adjust the pump and probe laser beams temporally.
The BBM topology in Figure 13 was compared to standard leading-edge pulse generator with various delay line lengths.
The most used one is the delay line frequency discriminator.
The TTDU is based on the innovative cross-connect switch presented in [28, 29] and realizes a switched delay line matrix.