Single-Step Tunable Group Delay Phaser for Spectrum Sniffing

This letter presents a single-step tunable group delay phaser for spectrum sniffing. This device may be seen as a “time filter”, where frequencies are suppressed by time separation rather than by spectral attenuation. Compared to its multiple-step counterpart, this phaser features higher processing resolution, greater simplicity, lower loss and better channel equalization, due to the smaller and channel-independent group delay swing. A two-channel example is provided for illustration.

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