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We're going to my MIL's for Christmas Eve, where we will feast on a buffet of Polish foods. Then we come home (1.5 hour drive) and crash. The next day, we sleep in (some go to Christmas Mass). When we get up, we sip champagne mimosas while munching on a carmelized French toast casserole during the gift opening. That's been the tradition for many years.
Later in the day, we have Christmas dinner, which typically is either a rib roast or a honey baked ham. We lounge around all day and it's wonderful!
I don't even know this yr. Usually on christmas eve mom cooks shrimp and fries oysters for DH and BIL and my dad when he was alive. Now BIL is in bad shape and dad is gone. It may just the 3 of us this yr. We have cheese cubes and finger foods. Then we open our gifts...Don't know if GK's will be here then or the next day...
My 3 grown kids (and eight grandkids, 6 to 25 yrs old) all live here in Phoenix. Every Christmas Eve we get together at my daughter's home for a big buffet and open our presents. My favorite night of the year ;o)
Christmas morning is just for each of our kids own family time with their children. Then we have Christmas dinner at my youngest son's home.
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Well, we have already started with DH's Sunday school Christmas luncheon yesterday. The 19th, we will have all of DH's family for the afternoon and evening..
My group will all gather on the afternoon of the 25th....all of this at our house.
In between we have DH's birthday this week, choir Christmas dinner on the 18th (it is a dress rehersal too...heh-heh they have to "sing for their supper") Christmas cantata and lunch at church on the 19th (I am a church music director), Christmas Eve candlelight service on the 24th, steak for two :^) for lunch on the 25th and finish it all up with my birthday on the 31st! Whew...I'm tired just looking at the list!! and yes Rose, it does come after a BIG BLESSED year!!
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This year will be very special for us. Even though I always spend Christmas Eve with my siblings and our families, we have the opportunity to fly out to Oregon to be with 2 of our sons that live out there.
Our son rented a cabin in the mountains, and my husband, our 3 sons and my future daughter-in-law and I will be spending 5 days together hiking, cooking, baking, reading, snowshoeing and just having a lot of fun family time together. We are all very excited!!!!
I hope everyone has a wonderful and happy holiday!
We moved to Oregon 10 years ago, and have never, ever spent Christmas here. But this spring, my folks moved out here, so we get to spend Christmas at home! I am so excited. We got a full-size tree (didn't bother before because we weren't going to be there), and went all-out with the decor around the house. We're also starting some new traditions: Christmas Eve cocktails at our house, and Christmas Day breakfast at my parents' house.
Hope you enjoy Oregon, declansmom.
I think we may have to start some new traditions this year. In years past, we would have Christmas Eve at my mom's house with a huge assortment of appetizers and always shrimp pasta salad. We would have Christmas morning brunch at my house after gifts were opened, and my son always played Santa Claus.
But with the passing of both my mom and son, plus our oldest granddaughter has to be with her dad until 10:30 this Christmas morning, we will open gifts Christmas morning at my house after 10:30 and then my sister-in-law plans to do a brunch at her house. It will be nice having my brother and SIL home for the holidays because they were always with her family in Nebraska. My daughter and younger granddaughter live with us now, so there is a lot of fun and fantasy because DGD is only 5 years old. She keeps us young!
Blizlady, I am so sorry to hear of the loss ob both your mom and son. Heart-wrenching. The holidays can be so hard when loved ones leave us, but it was wonderful to hear you are starting new traditions and have that little 5 yr old "earth angel" to make Christmas time bright and merry for all. She is a blessing for sure.
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I don't want her totally bare. the prepubescent look is creepy. I do, however, think the "undercarriage" itself should be shaved, both for her comfort and for mine. I mean, seriously, It's not gonna be nice for her either when I'm accidentally pulling her hair out with my teeth.On the other hand, her mons, while I would prefer it at least trimmed , is fine anyway she wants it, seeing how it's almost entirely cosmetic, and has no effect on our comfort, so to speak.
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I prefer if it's shaved all around the lips so I don't get stubble burn when I'm licking away down there. All trimmed in general is good. Some girls just shave it all off and that's fine but I don't really care as long as it doesn't get in the way of anything I have in mind for her.
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Dining options at this Berlin hotel include a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a bar/lounge. Wireless Internet access is complimentary in public areas. Business amenities at this 3.5-star property include meeting rooms and limo/town car service. The staff can provide tour/ticket assistance and wedding services. Additional amenities include gift shops/newsstands, a garden, and dry cleaning/laundry services. For a surcharge, guests receive transportation including a shuttle from the hotel to the airport (available on request), an area shuttle, and a shopping center shuttle. This is a smoke-free property.
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What groundcover can I use to replicate the scene in this image?
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I live in Dallas TX, and I am planning to build a Japanese garden in the back yard. I already planted my Bambusa Multiplex "Alphonse Karr" by the back fence, and now I am planning on completing the garden with lots of rocks, big mounds of dirt, and gravel. Plus a little artificial river that will end into a koi pond.
This is the problem, however. I would like to recreate the effect of these dirt mounds covered with those ground covers as it is showed in this picture I found on the internet. I would like to recreate this here in TEXAS, and I know it is going to be a challenge.
Can you suggest a plant that would thrive in full sun (because this ground cover will be facing the South of the garden), that will also withstand the "exceptional drought" that Texas has been going through lately? I will obviously water the garden with a sprinkler system.
Other plants that are going to be part of the garden (that I already ordered) are the following:
3 plants of Sequoiadendron giganteum ' Pendulum '
1 plant of Weeping Cherry Snow Fountain Prunus x 'Snofozam'
3 plants of Weeping Cherry Tree Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula'
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That looks like some kind of clipped evergreen, maybe boxwood. High maintainence!
You might be able to get some kind of similar effect with thyme, or some kind of sedum, tho they wouldn't be evergreen. I've seen thyme used in several public Japanese gardens, tho not to that effect.
You could try a groundcover juniper of some sort, that would grow in the sun and not need clipped. Moss would work, if you get the sun-loving kind.
The 'Groundcover' in the picture is probably Azaleas. In Japanese gardens they are usually clipped like Boxwood for shape.
The Crocagator was started from cuttings three inches long.
I grew them in a bed until about a foot tall. I then dug a ditch in a lizard shape and planted the Japanese Holly. No frame. About thirty plants and I trim it three times a year in the summer with an electric trimmer.
I should have made it longer. It grows wider, but not longer, so it appears it's getting fatter and fatter all the time. It's about 25 years old.
Did you read the caption?
I have found this groundcover online that might work really well! It is called "Delosperma nubiginum" and it looks like little cute grass that even blooms in late Spring! I just need to find somebody who sells these babies by the flat and in large quantities!
rinomanfroni ..... for excellent advise on J.Gardens in Texas, go to http://japanesegardening.org/talk/index.php
The mod/owner of the site, Don is from Texas and would give you excellent advice.
The ground cover that your pic shows i'm sure are azaleas
as stated by another member. I may be wrong, but they won't survive in your area and drought a sure death nell.


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What he means is: did you try the headphone already on an other audio device, like your iPod, stereo, walkman ..or something else..?
(then we can be sure if the headphone itself works)
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What he means is: did you try the headphone already on an other audio device, like your iPod, stereo, walkman ..or something else..?
(then we can be sure if the headphone itself works)
Unfortunately, this was just a typo in my post. I ran the command again and I still got the "unrecognized option", also with '--lsp'
Any ideas, anybody?
(Although this says SOLVED)
If you are not using the program RubyRipper anymore, stick with your solution. ;)
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I don't use irc myself, but...
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Hi there,
A little google gave me this:
Follow the steps. Really easy, you will have it done in minutes. ;)
Areca Backup ftw :P (also usable in Windows)
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First off, why did you install Ubuntu 10.04 instead of (the latest version) 10.10? That might fix your problem right away. :)
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Be sure to go to the Asus website and check if the Kingston memory is compatible with the motherboard.
That said, looks like a kick-a.s system! :)
I am also running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu...
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Don't eat and run
Now that Roxy's has gone from takeout joint to eat-in restaurant, you can sit down to scarf your 20-ounce burger
On your marks, get set, gorge...
With the Summer Olympics drawing to a close, let's kick things off with a story about a less-publicized but equally hard-fought competition that took place a tad closer to home.
Earlier this year, Roxy's Diner, located in Oak Bluff, hosted its inaugural Xtreme Dan challenge. Every Friday night for six weeks, groups of people battled it out to determine who could consume Roxy's signature burger, the Xtreme Dan, the fastest. (One bout boasted an all-female lineup; another featured only guys who answered to Dan.)
And what is an Xtreme Dan, you ask? Well, why don't we let the restaurant's namesake, Roxy Last, explain.
"It's a 20-ounce burger that actually weighs closer to two pounds, after you include the bun, bacon, cheese, pickles, fried onions, lettuce, tomato and mayo," says Roxy, who runs Roxy's in tandem with her mother, Jen.
"We named it after my best friend's boyfriend, Dan, who helped us out a ton with our new building."
On April 1, the 10 contestants who posted the speediest times in the preliminary heats gathered in Roxy's lounge for a winner-take-all chow-down. Unfortunately, the overall champion couldn't match his personal best -- a world-record two minutes and 16 seconds. But that was only because Jen and Roxy threw a last-minute wrench into the proceedings. In addition to an Xtreme Dan, each finalist also had to polish off an order of fries and (burp) a cold one.
Last but not least
THE Lasts are the third set of owners to operate a roadside restaurant on Highway 3, just west of the Perimeter Highway.
Don Hamm opened Hamm's Drive In in 1997. A few years later, he sold the business to two women named Katie and Carol, hence Tag No. 2: KC's.
The Lasts came on board in 2005 after Carol, who now works at Roxy's, told Jen it would be a perfect fit for her.
At the time, Jen was running the Prairie Gourmet in nearby Sanford. But because she was renting that locale, she jumped at the chance to secure a place of her own.
As to the sign on the door, Jen toyed around with a few other titles but nothing rolled off the tongue quite like Roxy's, she says, noting that she named her daughter less for Sweeney Todd's mid-'70s smash Roxy Roller and more for Daryl Hannah's character in the 1987 comedy Roxanne. (Jen and her husband John have two children. The diner's Big Al Burger is so-called for their son, Alex.)
Meals on wheels
LIKE Hamm's and KC's before it, Roxy's started life as a seasonal takeout stand. In December 2009, Jen and Roxy decided that selling burgers and dogs for seven out of 12 months wasn't going to cut the mustard. So they hired an architect to draw up plans for a new structure that could operate on a year-round basis.
Jen and Roxy were buoyed when they got the sketches back. But they wondered how they would be able to afford to turn their dream into reality. At about the same time, they learned that an existing building -- one that was roughly the same size as what they were hoping for -- had come up for sale. The price was right but there was one glitch: it was situated 34 kilometres away in Fannystelle, and the mother-and-daughter combo had no intention of pulling up stakes again.
To make a long story short, the Lasts purchased the Fannystelle Hotel in November 2010. Two months later, they had it moved, hook, line and duct work, to Oak Bluff.
"Everybody in town said, 'You have to tell us when it's coming, so we can go outside and watch,'" Jen says. Onlookers got their money's worth; because the 2,850-square-foot inn was too massive to fit on the mover's flatbed truck in one piece, it had to be cut in half and delivered separately.
"The guys who did it were masters," Jen says, showing a visitor a well-disguised, six millimetre-wide gap in the back of the building. "That's how close they got. I'll probably never patch that completely, just so I have a reminder of how things began."
Where's the beef?
IT'S been 13 months since Roxy's was reborn as a full-fledged diner and lounge. That isn't long enough, it seems, to make everybody forget about the old digs.
"People pull in to the side of the road all the time and look around, trying to figure out where we went," Roxy says. "But what's also funny is the people who live near Fannystelle; they'll come in and say they know they've seen this place before, but they can't figure out where exactly."
The change in venue also meant a change in the kitchen. Instead of concentrating strictly on takeout fare, Roxy's now serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week. All of the home-style recipes are Jen's.
"I never had enough money or time to go to (cooking) school, so for the first 15 years I worked in restaurants, I treated every shift like a classroom; I read every cookbook I could get my hands on and kept trying different things until I got good at them," she says, adding that while she doesn't mind still being pigeon-holed as a burger place, what she's really looking forward to is becoming "that place in the country where couples can go for a nice drive to enjoy a sit-down dinner."
Of course, Roxy admits that there will probably always be a contingent of customers who wish she and her mom hadn't changed a thing.
"A few have said that we lost a bit of our charm when we tore the old place down," Roxy says. "My reply is always, 'You know, when we were in there freezing our butts off in early April and late October, it never felt particularly charming.'"
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 11, 2012 E3
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An amplitude limiting circuit is utilized to select the most favorable linear region of the light vs. current characteristic curve (for directly modulated lasers) or the lasers modulator transfer function (for externally modulated lasers) by preventing excursions of the broadband, multiplexed input signal beyond selected upper and lower current or voltage limits. The clipped broadband signal is represented as a stationary Gaussian process to provide a reliable estimate of the carrier-to-nonlinear distortion per channel that would be experienced with a given laser or optical modulator which may be either directly and externally modulated. The clipping levels can be set to avoid the unpredictable levels of nonlinear distortion of the modulator and thereby to achieve an acceptably low level of non-linear distortion of the modulator.
1. An optical transmitter system comprising:
an electronically adjustable amplitude limiting means for receiving and processing a multiplexed composite modulated electrical input signal representative of a plurality of multiplexed communication channels and for transmitting in response thereto a limited composite modulated electrical signal; and
an optical output means for receiving the limited composite electrical signal and for generating modulated optical signal in response thereto, the optical signal having an output power being substantially linearly proportional to the received limited composite modulated electrical signal between a lower electrical clipping level and an upper electrical clipping level;
wherein the limited composite modulated electrical signal transmitted by said electronically adjustable amplitude limiting means is adjusted and processed so as to be between the lower electrical clipping level and the upper electrical clipping level of the optical output means for all possible multiplexed composite modulated electrical input signal values.
2. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein said optical output means comprises a laser intensity modulated along a linear current vs. light intensity region.
3. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein the lower electrical clipping level is an activation threshold of said optical output means.
4. The optical transmitter system of claim 3, wherein the upper electrical clipping level is below a saturation point of said optical output means.
5. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein the upper electrical clipping level is a saturation point of said optical output means.
6. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein the multiplexed composite modulated electrical signal received by said amplitude limiting means is a modulated voltage signal and wherein said amplitude limiting means is a voltage limiter.
7. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein said optical output means comprises a modulator and a continuous output laser optically coupled thereto, said modulator having a periodic transfer function with a linear portion and being responsive to the limited composite modulated electrical signal to modulate light output of said laser along said linear portion.
8. The optical transmitter system of claim 7, wherein said amplitude limiting means is a voltage limiter.
9. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein the multiplexed composite modulated electrical signal received and processed by said amplitude limiting means comprises an amplitude modulated signal.
10. The optical transmitter system of claim 1, wherein the multiplexed composite modulated electrical signal received and processed by said amplitude limiting means comprises a quadrature amplitude modulated signal.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/382,552, filed Feb. 2, 1995 now abandoned.
The present invention relates to communications systems and, more particularly, to multicarrier systems such as cable television systems, or CATV.
The problems of nonlinear distortion and limited dynamic range in multicarrier, multichannel communication systems, such as CATV, have received renewed attention with the advent of optical fiber and lasers being used in the distribution of television signals.
High speed optical transmitters are increasingly being employed in communications applications, but these applications are generally digital transmissions wherein signal linearity is hardly an issue of concern. If, however, digital transmission were used in a CATV system, the costs of installing digital-to-analog converters at each end user would be prohibitive. Thus, due to the fact that essentially no cost is incurred at the end user when the signal format is compatible with existing television receivers and VCR's, the advantages of carrying analog multichannel waveforms on optical links cannot be overlooked.
In a typical optical CATV system, many amplitude modulated vestigial-sideband (AM-VSB) channels on individual subcarriers are summed to form a broadband multiplexed signal which is used either to directly modulate the intensity of a laser (direct modulation) or to modulate the output of a laser operating in CW mode (external modulation). The subcarriers may contain, for example, digital modulation such as quadrature AM for compressed digital video. While optical transmission losses are only of the order of 0.5 dB per kilometer, a challenge is encountered in minimizing nonlinear distortion components and increasing dynamic range, given performance limitations and high cost of currently available optical transducers, for instance, lasers, external optical modulators and light amplifiers.
Recent developments in both directly modulated and externally modulated optical transmitters show significant improvements in their analog characteristics. In directly modulated systems, for example, improvements have been made in the linearity, optical power and linear dynamic range of semiconductor lasers. Unfortunately, the linearity limitations for current practice CATV analog transmissions requiring multicarrier amplitude modulation (AM) place a severe limit on channel capacity and loss budgets, i.e., the allowed loss in signal power that provides adequate dynamic range. During large negative excursions of the multiplexed signal, for example, clipping of the laser intensity occurs which induces nonlinear distortion (i.e. intermodulation noise) in all of the individual channels. Additionally, large positive excursions beyond the saturation point of the laser can cause highly unpredictable levels of nonlinear distortion and is currently avoided by selecting a laser having a sufficiently long linear region to preclude such excursions. The amount of nonlinear distortion is typically characterized in terms of a carrier-to-nonlinear distortion (C-NLD) ratio.
In the case of directly modulated lasers, a conventional technique for controlling the nonlinear distortion of laser intensity modulation is to set the laser bias current, Ib, high enough to ensure that the laser always operates above the laser threshold current but below the saturation current threshold and, thus, in the linear range. Such operation, however, leads to increased power dissipation and increased shot noise at the photodetector. Moreover, although lasers capable of such elevated bias point operation are available, they are expensive to fabricate and must be specially constructed for the particular application. Further improvements in the performance and price of optical transmission devices is clearly needed.
In an externally modulated laser, the transfer function of the modulator is sinusoidal and the modulator is typically biased as close as possible to the quadrature point to suppress second harmonic components. Although the bias applied is a voltage bias rather than a current bias, large excursions of the broadband multiplexed signal in either direction relative to the linear range will also result in undesirable levels of non-linear distortion. Here again, the modulator used in a conventional transmitter must be specially configured to provide a sufficiently long linear range to accommodate elevated bias point operation.
In accordance with the present invention, the level of non-linear distortion in the output of an optical transmitter is preset to an acceptable level by using an amplitude limiting device to clip a broadband multiplexed signal. To determine whether the level of non-linear distortion is acceptable in a given application, an approximate value of the carrier-to-nonlinear distortion per channel is obtained by representing the clipped broadband signal as a stationary Gaussian process.
In accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the amplitude limiter is utilized to select the most favorable linear region of the light vs. current characteristic of an intensity modulated laser by controlling excursions of the broadband multiplexed signal beyond selected upper and lower current limits such, for example, as the saturation point Is, and threshold, Ith, of the laser diode. By setting upper and lower limits in this manner, the unpredictable levels of non-linear distortion associated with excursions of the broadband multiplexed signal beyond the linear region of the laser diode are avoided. Instead, the exact spectra of the clipping distortion resulting from laser intensity modulation with a clipped signal may be predicted by employing noise theory and numerical analysis.
The clipping technique of the present invention is equally applicable to transmitting systems employing directly and externally modulated lasers, and the amount of distortion introduced by the clipping process will depend on the clipping levels, the dynamic range of the laser, or modulator and spectral shape of the multiplexed broadband signal. The present invention makes it possible to determine in advance whether a particular laser or modulator, which might heretofore have been rejected as having, for example, an insufficient linear range, may be used for a particular application. As such, it may now be possible to utilize less expensive laser diodes or modulators despite, in a directly modulated laser for example, non-linear behavior near threshold and saturation.
The various features of novelty which characterize the invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of the disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages, and specific objects attained by its use, reference should be had to the drawing and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated and described preferred embodiments of the invention.
In the drawings, wherein like reference characters denote similar elements throughout the several views:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a sub-carrier multiplexed optical communication system utilizing an amplitude limiter for clipping broadband signal Im (t) in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a directly modulated laser system employing a voltage limiting device in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a light power versus drive current characteristic curve for a laser diode;
FIG. 4A is an unclipped stationary Gaussian process X(t) corresponding to the unclipped, broadband signal Im (t) of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4B depicts Xc (t), the stationary Gaussian process of FIG. 4A clipped at two levels I1 and I2 and corresponding to Ic (t) of FIG. 2; and
FIGS. 5, 6 and 7 are curves depicting C/NLD ratios for asymmetrical clipping levels I1 and I2 in accordance with the present invention.
Although the amplitude limiting technique of the present invention will be described in detail in connection with the control of non-linear distortion in a system employing a directly modulated laser, it should be emphasized that it may also be utilized in a system employing an externally modulated laser to prevent excursions of a multiplexed broadband signal beyond the linear range of the modulator's transfer function.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown an amplitude modulated-vestigial sideband sub-carrier multiplexed transmission system 10 utilizing a directly modulated laser diode and the distortion control technique of the present invention. Illustratively, system 10 is a CATV system in which several baseband frequency modulation television channels 12, 14, and 16 are conventionally frequency division multiplexed by multipliers 13, 15 and 17, respectively, on different carrier frequencies ω0, ω1 and ωn, respectively, as separate amplitude modulated-vestigial sideband subcarriers, in a multiplexed input Im signal. A summer 18 combines the individual television channels at the different sub-carrier frequencies into the multiplexed input signal Im (t) without distortion.
The multiplexed signal Im (t) is received by amplitude limiter 20, which outputs a broadband current signal Ic (t) that is clipped at one or more predetermined limits selected to confine intensity modulation of the laser diode 22 to its linear region. It will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art that the clipped signal output by limiter 20 may be either a current signal such as Ic (t) or a voltage signal Vc (t), as shown in FIG. 2. Thus, any suitable limiter circuit may be utilized to obtain the most favorable linear region of the light versus current intensity modulation or, in the case of an externally modulated laser, the modular transfer function. By way of particular example, reference may be had to U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,317 to Crosby entitled "FAST RECOVERY LIMITING AND PHASE INVERTING AMPLIFIER", the disclosure of which patent is expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Returning to FIG. 1, the clipped broadband signal Ic (t) is supplied to a laser diode 22 as a part of a total laser drive current I and launched into an optical waveguide such as optical fiber 24 to be received by photodetector 25. The total laser drive current, or injection current, I to the laser diode 22 includes both a dc bias current IB and the clipped composite multiplexed input signal Ic (t) from limiter 20.
In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention depicted in FIG. 2, the amplitude limiter 20 is configured to convert a broadband input voltage signal V(t), which signal is proportional to signal Im (t), to a clipped signal voltage Vc (t). The clipped signal Vc (t) is supplied to laser driver 21 which, in turn, supplies a clipped, intensity modulated signal Ic (t) to laser diode 22 which launches a signal into an optical waveguide, such as optical fiber 24. The number of channel signals in the laser drive current may be as many as eighty or more bands of frequencies throughout a range of frequencies from 1 MHz to 1 GHz. For a perfectly linear laser, its output optical signal power varies directly with the magnitude of the applied laser drive current. As will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 3, the broadband signal Im (t) is clipped by limiter 20 so as to remain between upper and lower values Ib +I2 and Ib -I2, which values are selected to confine the intensity modulation of the laser to the linear region. By clipping the intensity modulation just slightly above the threshold bias current of the laser, for example, the substantial nonlinear distortion caused by large excursions of the broadband signal into the nonlinear region are avoided.
It will, of course, be immediately apparent to those skilled in the art that while clipping can be used to prevent excursions into the nonlinear regions of the laser and thus eliminate the nonlinear distortion associated therewith, the action of the signal in accordance with the present invention clipping also causes nonlinear distortion of the laser intensity modulation. However, and as will now be described in detail, noise theory and numerical analysis may be used to compute the nonlinear distortion associated with symmetrical or asymmetrical clipping of an intensity modulated broadband signal. As a result, it is possible to define, by clipping, an optimal linear region of a given laser such that nonlinear distortion is minimized and maintained at or below a level suitable for a given application involving analog, digital, or mixed modulation.
To best understand how the distortion power associated with laser intensity modulation may be computed, it is helpful to consider a general formula for computing the average power of a stationary Gaussian process that is clipped at one or two arbitrary levels. With reference now to FIGS. 4A and 4B, there is shown in FIG. 4A a stationary Gaussian process X(t) in an unclipped form and in FIG. 4B a clipped stationary process Xc (t) corresponding, for example, to the signal Ic (t) clipped at the levels I1 and I2 of FIG. 3. X(t) and Xc (t) may, in fact, be used to represent any unclipped and corresponding clipped broadband analog signal to facilitate computation of non-linear distortion corresponding, for example, to the unclipped, broadband signal Im (t) of FIG. 2.
With particular reference to FIG. 4B, IR =I1 +I2 denotes the dynamic range of the clipping levels I1 and -I2. X(t) represents a zero mean, unit variance stationary Gaussian process of one-sided power spectral density Wx (f). As seen in FIG. 4b, X(t) is represented by a clipped process Xc (t) and two excursion processes Z(t) and W(t), yielding the relation:
X(t)=Xc (t)+Z(t)+W(t)
Xc (t)=clipped version of X(t) ##EQU1##
At any time t, equation (1) can be written as:
Xc =X-Z-W. (2)
The average continuous power, Pc, of the clipped Gaussian process Xc (t) is given by the variance of Xc (t) or:
Pc =E Xc -E(Xc)!2 =E X c 2 !- EXc !2,(3)
where E denotes the expectation.
To determine Pc, the first and second moments of Z and W are needed. These are given by: ##EQU2##
Using the moments in equation (3) results in the following general expression for Pc : ##EQU3##
In the case of symmetrical clipping, I1 =I2 =I and equation (7) reduces to:
Pc =1-2 Iφ(I)+(1-I2) Φ(-I)!. (8)
For clipping at only the level -I2, I1 →∞ and equation (7) reduces to:
Pc =1-φ(I2) φ(I2)+I2 !-Φ(-I2) 1-2I2 φ(I2) -I2 2 Φ(I2)!.(9)
Let X(t) now represent a frequency multiplexed, broadband analog signal having a one-sided power spectral density Wx (f) which represents N contiguous channels of equal power and extends from fa to fb. In order to determine the total nonlinear distortion power, included in the continuous power, Pc, of Xc (t), the following relation is considered: ##EQU4## where Wc (f)=continuous portion of the power spectral density of Xc (t)
h01 =signal suppression factor (10)
Pd =AC nonlinear distortion power (i.e. intermodulation noise) ##EQU5## For clipping at two arbitrary levels I1 and -I2, h01 is given by
h01 =Φ(I2)-Φ(-I1). (11)
Accordingly, as a conservative approximation, the signal or "carrier"-to-nonlinear distortion power ratio, C/NLD, is given by ##EQU6## If it is assumed that the signal or "carrier" power, h2 01, and the nonlinear distortion power, Pd, are both distributed uniformly among the N contiguous frequency bands or channels of interest, then equation (12) also represents the C/NLD ratio per channel. If it is known that only a fraction, F, of the total nonlinear distortion power, Pd, is distributed uniformly among the N continuous channels of interest, equation (12) generalizes to: ##EQU7## Wc (f) depends upon the power spectral density, Wx (f), of the broadband analog signal X(t) while Pd is independent of Wx (f) and is given by equations (7), (10) and (11). The most conservative value of the approximated C/NLD ratio is obtained when Γ=1.0, at which point the computed C/NLD ratio is independent of the bandwidth or spectral location of the broadband analog signal. However, as will later be seen with reference to FIGS. 5-7, very accurate results also show that controlled dynamic range, IR, and other values of r result in much higher C/NLD ratios.
Utilizing equation (13), the C/NLD ratio associated with the intensity modulation of a laser can now be computed. The relation between μ, the total RMS modulation index, and the AC power of the broadband analog signal, σ2, is given by:
σ2 =I2 2 μ2
μ2 =Nm2 |2 (14)
N=Number of channels multiplexed
m=Optical modulation index per channel.
For laser intensity modulation, it is most efficient to make μ as large as possible. As μ increases, however, I2 decreases, potentially resulting in significant clipping of the broadband analog signal X(t) and induced distortion in all of the individual channels. Letting σ2 =1 and μ=1/I2 in the case of asymmetrical clipping, FIGS. 5-7 show the C/NLD ratio for Γ=1.0, 0.5, and 0.25. The dynamic range of the clipping levels is indicated as IR =I1 +I2. In each case, the computed C/NLD value very closely approached those obtained empirically.
From the foregoing, it should now be readily apparent that the nonlinear distortion resulting from large excursions of a wideband modulating signal can be prevented by clipping the signal. Moreover, the difficult-to-compute, highly laser dependent distortion introduced by such excursions, the nonlinear distortion introduced by clipping the signal can, in accordance with the present invention, be readily and accurately computed. In fact, limiting the amplitude of the broadband signal provides a means of jointly optimizing the various orders of distortion, modal suppression, power dissipation, conversion efficiency, and shot noise at the photodetector.
Utilizing the teachings of the present invention, laser diodes and modulators heretofore deemed unusable due to an insufficient distortion-free, dynamic range, may now be utilized for lightwave applications involving analog, digital, or mixed modulation such, for example, as subcarrier multiplexing. The C/NLD ratio can be readily computed, for example, for a laser clipped at a given level to determine its suitability for the desired application. Eliminating the operating regions below the laser threshold and above the saturation region, one may now select the linear region most favorable to the application. This enables the use of less expensive laser diodes while ensuring a level of performance that is less dependent upon the nonlinear performance of the laser diode near the threshold and saturation points.
By way of particular example, in a recently introduced CATV laser diode, the optimal operating value is μ=0.25 or I2 =4.0. At this operating point, the carrier-to-nonlinear distortion ratio for CATV applications is limited to about 60 dB. This value is now very near the minimum target value of 58 dB. It is expected that an additional improvement of up to 10 dB can be achieved in such a laser diode using an amplitude limiter to decrease nonlinear distortion, making the benefits of the present invention immediately apparent.
While there have been shown and described and pointed out fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the disclosed invention may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is the intention, however, therefore, to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
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Can you put doors in a Manufactured Home
I have a manufactured home that I had brought for my parents in KY. Looks like I am going to have to live there. I would like to put a french door where the double windows are in the kitchen. Would I be able to have this done? Thanks for your help
Anything can be done. A good carpenter should be albe to do it. The thing is, if your jurisdiction is strict and requires a permit, they may not allow it. When the home was built it was probably built to HUD standards. By cutting into the walls you are changing the design and that's not allowed in some places. If the permit it not a problem then just make sure you don't hire some "fly by night" to do the job. Get someone who knows what they are doing. And, get an estimate before you hire them.
>Get someone who knows what they are doing.
Amen. And make sure they know if there are wires below the window. I watched a carpenter that the landlord had hired cut out a window to install an entrance door to my office. Even after telling him there would certainly be wires there, he gleefully fired up the saws-all, ...and you know the rest of the story.
OldVt....my experience has been that the only people who will certify that you are not "decreasing the standards" are the HUD officials at the factory. If someone is in a strict enforcement area, I can almost guarantee that no local offical, mobile sales organization or anyone else will certify that you are not decreasing the standards by removing any part of any wall. I'm sure a lot of it is nonsense, but everyone wants to cover thieir butt. And that means they won't be willing to go out on a limb. Yes, I have seen people forced to put a wall back to original because they added a window that was 6" taller than the one that came from the factory. Who knows, maybe there are very few strict jurisdictions.
Yes. I found a beautiful nearly new french door at my local habitat for humanity garage sale.. a $400+ door I got for $75. I had a contractor remove a window in the office off the kitchen and install the door. I also had him reverse the swing so it swung in to the left. We put on a lever type knob since it's easier to open with plates of food in your hands. Now we can get to the new deck without going all the way to the other end of the house & thru the laundryroom. It was one of the best things we had done.
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