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Image impedance

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Image impedance is a concept used in electronic network design and analysis and most especially in filter design. The term image impedance applies to the impedance seen looking into a port of a network. Usually a two-port network is implied but the concept can be extended to networks with more than two ports. The definition of image impedance for a two-port network is the impedance, Zi 1, seen looking into port 1 when port 2 is terminated with the image impedance, Zi 2, for port 2. In general, the image impedances of ports 1 and 2 will not be equal unless the network is symmetrical (or anti-symmetrical) with respect to the ports.

Parts of this article or section rely on the reader's knowledge of the complex impedance representation of capacitors and inductors and on knowledge of the frequency domain representation of signals.

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Derivation

Simple 'L' network with series impedance Z and shunt admittance Y. Image impedances Zi 1 and Zi 2 are shown
Showing how a 'T' section is made from two cascaded 'L' half-sections. Zi 2 is facing Zi 2 to provide matching impedances
Showing how a 'Π' section is made from two cascaded 'L' half-sections. Zi 1 is facing Zi 1 to provide matching impedances

As an example, the derivation of the image impedances of a simple 'L' network is given below. The 'L' network consists of a series impedance, Z, and a shunt admittance, Y.

The difficulty here is that in order to find Zi 1 it is first necessary to terminate port 2 with Zi 2. However, Zi 2 is also an unknown at this stage. The problem is solved by terminating port 2 with an identical network: port 2 of the second network is connected to port 2 of the first network and port 1 of the second network is terminated with Zi 1. The second network is terminating the first network in Zi 2 as required. Mathematically, this is equivalent to eliminating one variable from a set of simultaneous equations. The network can now be solved for Zi 1. Writing out the expression for input impedance gives:

and solving for

Zi 2 is found by a similar process, but it is simpler to work in terms of the reciprocal, that is image admittance Yi 2,

Also, it can be seen from these expressions that the two image impedances are related to each other by:

Measurement

Directly measuring image impedance by adjusting terminations is inconveniently iterative and requires precision adjustable components to effect the termination. An alternative technique to determine the image impedance of port 1 is to measure the short-circuit impedance ZSC (that is, the input impedance of port 1 when port 2 is short-circuited) and the open-circuit impedance ZOC (the input impedance of port 1 when port 2 is open-circuit). The image impedance is then given by,

This method requires no prior knowledge of the topology of the network being measured.

Usage in filter design

When used in filter design, the 'L' network analysed above is usually referred to as a half section. Two half sections in cascade will make either a T section or a Π section depending on which port of the L section comes first. This leads to the terminology of Zi T to mean the Zi 1 in the above analysis and Zi Π to mean Zi 2.

Relation to characteristic impedance

Image impedance is a similar concept to the characteristic impedance used in the analysis of transmission lines. In fact, in the limiting case of a chain of cascaded networks where the size of each single network is approaching an infinitesimally small element, the mathematical limit of the image impedance expression is the characteristic impedance of the chain.[1][2][3] That is,

The connection between the two can further be seen by noting an alternative, but equivalent, definition of image impedance. In this definition, the image impedance of a network is the input impedance of an infinitely long chain of cascaded identical networks (with the ports arranged so that like impedance faces like). This is directly analogous to the definition of characteristic impedance as the input impedance of an infinitely long line.

Conversely, it is possible to analyse a transmission line with lumped components, such as one utilising loading coils, in terms of an image impedance filter.

Transfer function

The transfer function of the half section, like the image impedance, is calculated for a network terminated in its image impedances (or equivalently, for a single section in an infinitely long chain of identical sections) and is given by,

where γ is called the transmission function, propagation function or transmission parameter and is given by,

The term represents the voltage ratio that would be observed if the maximum available power was transferred from the source to the load. It would be possible to absorb this term into the definition of γ, and in some treatments this approach is taken. In the case of a network with symmetrical image impedances, such as a chain of an even number of identical L sections, the expression reduces to,

In general, γ is a complex number such that,

The real part of γ, represents an attenuation parameter, α in nepers and the imaginary part represents a phase change parameter, β in radians. The transmission parameters for a chain of n half sections, provided that like impedance always faces like, is given by;

As with the image impedance, the transmission parameters approach those of a transmission line as the filter section become infinitesimally small so that,

with α, β, γ, Z, and Y all now being measured per metre instead of per half section.

Relationship to two-port network parameters

ABCD parameters

For a reciprocal network (ADBC=1), the image impedances can be expressed[4] in terms of ABCD parameters as,

.

The image propagation term, γ may be expressed as,

.

Note that the image propagation term for a transmission line segment is equivalent to the Propagation constant of the transmission line times the length.

Image filter sections
 
Unbalanced
L Half section T Section Π Section
Ladder network
 
Balanced
C Half-section H Section Box Section
Ladder network
X Section (mid-T-Derived) X Section (mid-Π-Derived)
N.B. Textbooks and design drawings usually show the unbalanced implementations, but in telecoms it is often required to convert the design to the balanced implementation when used with balanced lines. edit

See also

References

  1. ^ Lee, Thomas H. (2004). "2.5. Driving-point impedance of Iterated Structure". Planar microwave engineering: a practical guide to theory, measurement, and circuits. Cambridge University Press. p. 44.
  2. ^ Niknejad, Ali M. (2007). "Section 9.2. An Infinite Ladder Network.". Electromagnetics for high-speed analog and digital communication circuits.
  3. ^ Feynman, Richard; Leighton, Robert B.; Sands, Matthew. "Section 22-7. Filter". The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Vol. 2. If we imagine the line as broken up into small lengths Δℓ, each length will look like one section of the L-C ladder with a series inductance ΔL and a shunt capacitance ΔC. We can then use our results for the ladder filter. If we take the limit as Δℓ goes to zero, we have a good description of the transmission line. Notice that as Δℓ is made smaller and smaller, both ΔL and ΔC decrease, but in the same proportion, so that the ratio ΔL/ΔC remains constant. So if we take the limit of Eq. (22.28) as ΔL and ΔC go to zero, we find that the characteristic impedance z0 is a pure resistance whose magnitude is √(ΔL/ΔC). We can also write the ratio ΔL/ΔC as L0/C0, where L0 and C0 are the inductance and capacitance of a unit length of the line; then we have .
  4. ^ Pedro L. D. Peres, Carlos R. de Souza, Ivanil S. Bonatti, "ABCD matrix: a unique tool for linear two-wire transmission line modelling", The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, vol. 40, iss. 3, pp. 220–229, 2003, archived 4 March 2016.
  • Matthaei, Young, Jones Microwave Filters, Impedance-Matching Networks, and Coupling Structures McGraw-Hill 1964
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