delay line

(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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The BBM topology in Figure 13 was compared to standard leading-edge pulse generator with various delay line lengths.

Break-before-make CMOS inverter for power-efficient delay implementation

The most used one is the delay line frequency discriminator.

Six-port-based architecture for phase noise measurement in the UWB band

The TTDU is based on the innovative cross-connect switch presented in [28, 29] and realizes a switched delay line matrix.

The design of an Optical Time Steered Antenna based on a new integrated True Time Delay unit