• Nonlinear distortion is a term used (in fields such as electronics, audio and telecommunications) to describe the phenomenon of a non-linear relationship...
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  • the nonlinear distortion without ill effect (but schemes such as amplitude modulation do not). Frequency multiplication is also used in nonlinear optics...
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  • Harmonic distortion adds overtones that are whole number multiples of a sound wave's frequencies. Nonlinearities that give rise to amplitude distortion in audio...
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    heavy distortion. The word distortion refers to any modification of wave form of a signal, but in music it is used to refer to nonlinear distortion (excluding...
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  • determine the range limitations of sonar pulse propagation due to nonlinear distortion. The airborne experiments were aimed at recording quantitative data...
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  • these common distortions actually imply a nonlinear radius mapping from the object to the image: What is seemingly pincushion distortion, is actually...
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    intermodulation distortion (IMD) is the amplitude modulation of signals containing two or more different frequencies, caused by nonlinearities or time variance...
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    produced electronically by combining two signals in a circuit that has nonlinear distortion, such as an amplifier subject to clipping or a ring modulator. One...
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  • introduces distortion in the form of large quantities of higher-frequency harmonics. In principle, PCM digital systems have the lowest level of nonlinear distortion...
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  • becomes metallic sounding as a result of severe aliasing and perhaps nonlinear distortion from poorly tuned digital-to-analog conversion. (Note that all of...
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    transistors, MOS transistors) are nonlinear. Negative feedback trades gain for higher linearity (reducing distortion) and can provide other benefits. If...
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  • J.C. (March 2004). "Evaluation of signal-to-noise and distortion ratio degradation in nonlinear systems". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques...
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    clipping, the gain of the transistor will be reducing (leading to nonlinear distortion) as the output current increases and the voltage across the transistor...
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    the coefficient of nonlinear distortions has a value within 0.01%, which is almost independent of the voltage. These distortions are dominated by the...
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  • response functions and nonlinear output frequency response functions have been defined to analyze nonlinear dynamic effects. Nonlinear frequency response...
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    of each individual filter. Coupling capacitors can also introduce nonlinear distortion at low frequencies. This is not an issue at high frequencies because...
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  • circuits that implement nonlinear analog functions such as logarithmic amplifiers, analog multipliers, and peak detectors. Nonlinear elements such as transistors...
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    harmonic distortion or intermodulation distortion. No amplifier can provide perfect linearity (even the most linear amplifier has some nonlinearities, since...
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  • or amplifier nonlinear dynamics. Predistortion can be implemented in an analog as well as digital manner known as digital pre-distortion. Kelly Mekechuk;...
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    Nonlinear dimensionality reduction, also known as manifold learning, is any of various related techniques that aim to project high-dimensional data, potentially...
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  • adaptive, and, in particular, include the ability to handle nonlinear signal distortion and non-stationary, colored, data-dependent noise (PDNP or NPML)...
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  • example, linear filters are often used to remove noise and distortion that was created by nonlinear processes, simply because the proper non-linear filter...
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    Geddes, Earl R.; Lee, Lidia W. (October 2003). Auditory Perception of Nonlinear Distortion (PDF). AES 115th Convention. New York, New York: Audio Engineering...
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  • the more general third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3), which is a measure for weakly nonlinear systems and devices, for example receivers, linear...
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  • prevents overloading later amplifier stages, which would cause nonlinearity ("distortion") or clipping ("buzz") even if the overload occurred on frequencies...
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  • so there won't be much harmonic distortion. If the small-signal gain is much more than one, then significant distortion will be present. However the oscillator...
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    input, noise generator, and ring mod Per-voice, modulatable Drive (nonlinear distortion) and Low Boost (low EQ) Dual resonant multimode filters, including...
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  • distortion. Nonlinearity (journal) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Institute of Physics and the London Mathematical Society. Nonlinear gameplay...
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  • of the gain and/or bias point, noise immunity, and reduction of nonlinear distortion. Similarly, tradeoffs are used to maximize power efficiency in medical...
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  • in the path from the power source to a nonlinear load, these current distortions will also produce distortions in the voltage waveform at the load. However...
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