silica fibre optical amplifier was used as an auxiliary pump

source. The signal source was unchanged. The output from all
three sources was passed through the optical isolator and into
the fibre as before. 91mW of 1.48pm pump power was
launched of which 82mW was absorbed. The launched signal
was again held constant at -31dBm but this time, for each
wavelength step, the input auxiliary pump power was varied
between -30 and 1dBm. The gain and noise figure were
obtained as before.

Conclusions: A configuration for the 1.6pm amplifier combining high gains with good noise performance has been demonstrated. Using 82mW of pump power at 1.48pm together
with an auxiliary pump of -9dBm at 1.555pm, a maximum
gain of 31 dB at 1.57 pm has been achieved. With adjustment
of the auxiliary power level, a gain of 24dB with less than
1dB variation is obtained over a bandwidth of 30 nm. The
noise figure of this dual pumped amplifier approaches the
minimum possible for a 1.48pm pumped device, remaining
below 5dB over a bandwidth of 35nm. This represents an
improvement in noise figure of up to 5 dB over a similar using
a single 1.555pm pump.
17th August I992
J. F. Massicott, R. Wyatt and B. J. Ainslie (British Telecom Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich IPS 7RE, United Kingdom)

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ATKINS, C. G., MASSICOTT, J . F., ARMITAGE, J. R., WYATT, R., AINSLIE, B.

1570

l;80

I590
1600
wavelength ,nm

1610

Fig. 2 Gain spectra of I 4 p m amplifier pumped singly with 87mW of

pump power at 1.555pm only, and dual pumped with 82mW at I.48pm
with auxiliary powers of + I , -8, - 17 and -21 dBm
0 1.555pm, single pump
V 1.48 pm, 1dBm auxiliary pump
0 1.48 pm, - 8 dBm auxiliary pump
W 1.48 pm, - 17dBm auxiliary pump
A 1.48 pm, -21 dBm auxiliary pump

Results: Fig. 2 shows the gain spectrum of the 1.55pm

pumped amplifier and the evolution of the gain spectra of the
dual pumped amplifier as a function of auxiliary input level.
The singly pumped amplifier spectrum corresponds to that of
a dual pumped amplifier with an auxiliary input power of
approximately -19dBm. A maximum gain of 31dB is
achieved in the dual pumped case with an auxiliary power
level of -9dBm whereas for an auxiliary input power of
- 17dBm a particularly flat spectrum is obtained showing less
than 1 dB gain variation between 1.57 and 1.6pm.
The noise figure was found to vary by less than 1 dB with
auxiliary input level over the range measured. The noise figure
spectra of the singly pumped amplifier and the dual pumped
amplifier with an auxiliary level of -17dBm are shown in
Fig. 3. The lines are the minimum noise figures for amplifiers
pumped at 1.48 and 1.555pm as predicted by eqn. 2. The
noise performance of the dual pumped amplifier corresponds
well to the minimum expected from a 1.48pm pumped amplifier in the absence of ASE: a 5dB improvement is achieved
with respect to the measured and expected noise figures for an
amplifier pumped at 1,555~111 only. The increase in noise
figure beyond a 1,602pm is believed to be caused by excited
state absorption from the 4113,2 to 419,2 levels [SI.

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HIGH-T, BANDPASS FILTER USING

MINIATURISED MICROSTRIP HAIRPIN
RESONATORS

A. Enokihara, K. Setsune, K. Wasa, M. Sagawa and

M. Makimoto

Indexing terms: Superconductors, Superconducting devices,

Microwave filters
Superconductingbandpass filters of 4.9GHz with 0.5% relative bandwidth were designed using miniaturised microstrip
hairpin resonators and fabricated with GdBa,Cu,O, thin
films prepared on MgO. The passband insertion loss was
0.5 dB at 20 K and the filter configuration was defined in an
area less than 5 x 5 mm2.

1570

I580

1590
1600
wavelength, n m

1610

PE

Fig. 3 Noise figure for the single and dual pumped I 6 p m amplifier,

with theoretical minimum noisefiguresfor pump wavelengths of 1.48pm

and 1,555 pm
0 singlepump
W dualpump
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1.48 pm
1.555pm

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Introduction: High critical temperature (l;)thin films are used

in narrowband microwave filters to realise low insertion-loss
performance, because of their extremely low surface resistance
[l-31. Most of the high-l; filters demonstrated use the conventional parallel-coupled-line structure. The configuration of
such filters is however too large to define in an area of about
1 cm2 when designed with a centre frequency less than several
gigahertz on MgO crystals, on which high-T, films of high

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quality can be prepared. With regard to a cryogenic environment, the large device size is directly related to the heavy
refrigeration burden. Developing high-T, filters with miniaturised configuration is, therefore, very important in reducing the
size and operating power of the refrigeration systems and in
integrating the filters with other circuit elements onto a single
substrate.
In this work, we designed and fabricated narrowband
high-T, filters using miniaturised microstrip hairpin resonators, which have a suitable structure to reduce the size of the
filter configuration.
Miniaturised hairpin resonator [4] : The miniaturised hairpin
resonator consists of two sections, a symmetrical parallel
coupled line and a single line. One end of the coupled line is
open and the other end is connected in parallel by the single
line. The resonator length decreases compared with that of the
conventional half-wavelength resonator when Z, Z , < Z:,
where Z, and Z , are the characteristic impedances of the odd
and even modes in the coupled line section, rapectively, and
Z , is that in the single line section.

pared on (100) MgO crystals by RF magnetron sputtering.

The as-deposited films have a flat surface and T, of around
82 K. The usual photolithographic technique with argon ionbeam etching was employed for the film patterning. A gold
thin film 800nm thick was deposited on the reverse side of the
substrate as the ground plane. The filter of the same configuration was also fabricated with an 800nm-thick gold thin film
as a comparison.
Results and discussions: Fig. 2 shows the frequency responses
of the filters at 20K. The passband insertion loss Lo of the
GBCO superconducting filter is 0.5 dB, which is 1.9 dB lower
than that of the gold filter. The temperature dependence of Lo
is shown in Fig. 3, where the broken lines indicate Lo estimated from unloaded quality factors Q,, which were measured with the hairpin resonators of the same configuration to
those in the filter structure. The Q, values of the GBCO and
the gold resonators were 1550 and 330 at 20K, respectively.
The measured Lo agree well with those estimated from the Q,
for both the filters, which means that the low Lo of the GBCO
filter was obtained from the high-Q performance due to the
low conductor-loss property of the high-T,materials.
0-

m
U
1

U;

0
-

c 5 -

c_

Fig. 1 Miniaturised hairpin resonntor filter and conuentionnl parallelcoupled-linefilter with snme electricol speci$cations
a Hairpin
b Conventional parallel-coupled-line

bandpass filter with centre frequency of 4.9 GHz and relative

bandwidth of 0.5% using the miniaturised microstrip hairpin
resonators on a 0.5"
thick MgO substrate (E, = 9.2). A
schematic diagram of the filter circuit is shown in Fig. la. The
resonators have a coupled line of 60pm gap spacing. Input
and output coupling is achieved by tapping at the single line
section. The conventional parallelcoupled-line filter with the
same electrical specifications is presented in Fig. lb. The
hairpin resonator filter is defined in an area less than
5 x 5mm2, which is around one third of that of the conventional one.
The filters were fabricated with GdBa,Cu,O, superconducting thin films of 680nm thickness. The films were preI

t
10
0

Filter design and fabrication: We designed a two-stage

11)6111

5"

50
temperature. K

Fig. 3 Temperature dependence of passband insertion loss for GBCO

filter and goldfilter
(i) GBCO filter
(ii) gold filter
_ _ _ _ insertion loss calculated from unloaded quality factors of
resonators

Conclusion: Both small size and low insertion loss could be

realised for narrowband filters by using the miniaturised

microstrip hairpin resonators and fabricating with
GdBa,Cu,O, high-T, thin films. The configuration of the filter
is defined in an area less than one third of that of a conventional filter with the same electrical specifications. The size of
the high-T, filter including the cryogenic refrigerator can considerably decrease with a reduction in the refrigeration
burden.
24th August I992
A. Enokihara, K. Setsune, K. Wasa, M. Sagawa. and M. Makiioto'
(Central Research Loboratories, Matsushito Electric Industrial Co.,
Ltd., Moriguchi, Osaka 570, Jopan

* Also with Information and Communication Research Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki
214, Japan
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4 5

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50
frequency, GHz

Fig. 2 Frequency responses of attenuationforfilters at 20 K

(i) GBCO superconducting filter
(ii) gold filter

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LYONS, W. G., BONETII, R. R., WILLIAMS, A. E., MANKIWCH, P. M.,

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N-

k=O

n = 0, 1, ..., N

- 1 (3)

The modified DCT-I defined in Reference 4 is given by the

expression

Wang did not define M, and we assume M = 2 N in eqn. 4 a

and M = 2 PN in eqn. 8, and the multiplying constants k; are

INTERPOLATION USING THE DISCRETE

COSINE TRANSFORM

J. I. Agbinya
Indexing term: Signal processing, Transforms, Algorithms

Zooming and zero padding interpolation algorithms based

on the conventional discrete cosine transform (DCX) arc presented. The DCT algorithms arc shown to be more accurate
and outperform algorithms based on the Wang modified
DCT-I which was proposed to replace the DCT for interpolation purposes.

In the sequel define the length of the interpolated sequence to

be S = P x N,and the coefficients Y(&) of the DCT (DCT-I)
transform of the interpolated sequence fin) using the DCT
coefficients X ( k ) .
(i) Case I: Zooming algorithm: Define Y ( k ) or Y l ( k ) as

= 0, 1 , 2 , _ _
N_
/ 2 ,-

Introduction: The discrete cosine transform [l-31 is widely

used in speech coding and image compression, because it is

nearly optimal compared with the Karhunen-Loeve transform. For example the recommended CCITT H.261 coding
algorithm for moving pictures uses the DCT after the motion
compensation stage in the encoder. Before encoding with the
DCT, motion vectors are derived using linear interpolation
algorithms based on nearest neighbour pixels to improve the
efficiency of the prediction of pixel values. The motion vectors
are used to provide offsets into both path and future picture
reference frames [SI. To effciently use the encoder, it is desirable to use the DCT in the motion compensation stage for
interpolation to predict pixels required for generating the
motion vectors and for subsequent encoding. We present a
discrete interpolation algorithm based on the DCT suitable
for predicting samples between any two neighbouring samples
of a sequence of length N an integer power of two. The results
presented here are contrary to the assertions of Wang [ 4 ]
that the DCT in its conventional form is unsuitable for interpolation applications unless the definition is modified. Here
the DCT is not modified. We give the DCT interpolation
algorithm using a zooming algorithm originally used with the
discrete Hartley tranform [SI,* by inserting zeros between the
(Nyquist point of the parent sequence) N / 2 and P x N - N / 2
sample position in the interpolated sequence. The second
method, applicable to real signals involves padding with zeros
the transform coefficients after N , thereby extending the
sequence to P x N samples. Thus the factor by which the
sampling rate is increased is P , and P - 1 samples are interpolated between any two consecutive samples of the parent
sequence.
Interpolation using the DCT: The discrete cosine transform of
a sequence x(n) is defined over N samples as [11

Y ( k )=

N
k = - 1, ..., P N - N / 2 - 1
2
k PN -N/2
N
k P N -- 1, .._,
PN - 1
2

0 . 5 X (N / 2 )

X(k -PN

+N)

(5)

The coefficients at N I 2 and P N - N / 2 are reduced by half to

minimise leakage errors at the data boundaries. To use this
algorithm, we modify the DCT multiplying factor c(k) as
follows :

J(2)

k=O
k = 1 , 2 , . ..,P N - 1

This modification of the multiplier ensures performance. The

inverse DCT of the interpolated sequence is therefore given by
the expression

n = 0, 1 , . ..,S - 1 (7)
The inverse modified DCT-I for the interpolated sequence
yl(n) is given by the expression
PN- I

yl(n) =

1 Y ( m )cos mnn
M

II= 1

(ii) Case 2: Zero padding algorithm: We assign transform coefficients to Y ( k )as

k = 0 , 1 , 2 ,..., N - t

(1)
Y ( k )=

where

= 1, 2, ...,N
otherwise

[O

* AGBINVA, J. 1.: 'Multidimensional interpolation using discrete

Hartley transform', submitted to IEEE Trans. Sign. Process., 1992

{F

k = O , l , ..., N
k =N
1, ..., P N - 1

(9)

where k = 0, 1, 2, ..., S - 1, and the inverse DCT and DCT-I

are used to form the interpolated time series fin) and yl(n),
respectively. Effectively the DCT coefficients are scaled with
c l ( k )= J ( 2 ) .
Performance of cosine transform interpolation algorithms: To
fully appreciate the effectiveness of transform domain interpolation algorithms, it is important to test them with short

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