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operational amplifier
high-gain voltage amplifier with a differential input
electronic amplifier
thumb|A McIntosh Laboratory|McIntosh stereo audio amplifier with output power of 50 watts per channel used in home component audio systems in the 1970s.
Bode plot
graph of the frequency response of a linear system presented in logarithmic scale
audio preamplifier
thumb|right|An example of a typical high-end Stereophonic sound|stereo preamplifier
coherer
right|thumb|Metal filings coherer designed by Guglielmo Marconi, consisting of a tube containing two electrodes spaced a small distance apart, with metal filings in the space between them The coherer was a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the 20th century. Its use in radio was based on the 1890 findings of French physicist Édouard Branly and adapted by other physicists and inventors over the next ten years. The device consists of a tube or capsule containing two electrodes spaced a small distance a
differential amplifier
electronic amplifier, a circuit component
magnetic amplifier
type of parametric amplifier
instrumentation amplifier
electronic amplifier, a circuit component
Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion
Mathematic test in control system theory
dynode
thumb|right|300 px|Two horizontal rows of arc-shaped dynodes in a photomultiplier tube. A dynode is an electrode in a vacuum tube that serves as an incident charge multiplier through secondary emission. The first tube to incorporate a dynode was the dynatron, an ancestor of the magnetron, which used a single dynode. Photomultiplier and video camera tubes generally include a series of dynodes, each at a more positive electrical potential than its predecessor. Secondary emission occurs at the surface of each dynode. Such an arrangement is able to amplify the tiny current emitted by the photocath
lock-in amplifier
amplifier type which can extract a signal with a known carrier wave from an extremely noisy environment
buffer amplifier
electronic amplifier, a circuit component
step response
time behavior
Class-D amplifier
audio amplifier based on digital switching
variable-gain amplifier
electronic amplifier that varies its gain depending on a control voltage
low-noise amplifier
signal amplifier that doesn't worsen the signal-noise ratio
current-to-voltage converter
amplifier that converts current to voltage
Parametric oscillator
harmonic oscillator whose parameters oscillate in time
current-feedback operational amplifier
operational amplifier that uses current, rather than voltage, as the feedback signal
Negative feedback amplifier
Type of electronic amplifier
operational amplifier applications
detailed list of principal circuits built around operational amplifier
antenna amplifier
amplifier applied on high frequency signals coming from an antenna
Gain–bandwidth product
product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
RF power amplifier
type of electronic amplifier
Charge amplifier
current integrator which produces a voltage output proportional to the integrated value of the input current
Intermediate-Frequency (IF) amplifier
amplifier stage used to raise signal levels in radio and television receivers
phase margin
Parameter of electronic amplifiers
Isolation amplifier
electronic amplifier, a circuit component
Operational transconductance amplifier
Operational transconductance amplifier
Optical parametric amplifier
type of laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths
loop gain
sum of the gain around a feedback loop
direct coupling
direct electrical contact between two electrical networks or stages
Third-order intercept point
Specific figure of merit in telecommunications
current conveyor
a three-terminal electronic building block, an ideal "triode" with current and voltage input and current output
negative impedance converter
configuration of an operational amplifier which acts as a negative load
Double-tuned amplifier
tuned amplifier with transformer coupling between the amplifier stages
Amplidyne
thumb|Three amplidynes, from a 1951 General Electric advertisement (not to same scale). (top left) 1 kW amplidyne motor–generator, (bottom left) 3 kW amplidyne motor–generator, (right) 5 kW amplidyne generator. thumb|Figure 1 of the patent drawing
Multistage amplifier
amplifier consisting of two or more simple amplifiers connected in series
Crossover distortion
type of electronic distortion
direct-coupled amplifier
type of amplifier