Lectures related to Homodyne Receivers: Design and Challenges

LTI Systems: Analysis and Properties

Covers the analysis and properties of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems.

Coherent Detection: Signal and Local Oscillator Interference

Explores coherent detection in optical systems, highlighting the interference between the signal and local oscillator.

Sampling: Signal Reconstruction and Aliasing

Covers the importance of sampling, signal reconstruction, and aliasing in digital representation.

Smart Sensors for the IoT: ADCs Fundamentals

Explores ADCs fundamentals for IoT smart sensors, covering quantization, non-idealities, and topologies.

Electrical Metrology: Noise Reduction Techniques

Explores noise reduction techniques in electrical metrology, covering properties of charge, current, voltage, noise sources, and filtering methods.

Noise Reduction Techniques

Explores various noise reduction techniques, including impedance matching, temperature reduction, and bandwidth reduction.

Wireless Receivers: Time and Phase Offset Compensation

Covers the impact of time and phase offset in wireless receivers and discusses compensation techniques.

Signals, Instruments, and Systems

Explores signals, instruments, and systems, covering ADC, Fourier Transform, sampling, signal reconstruction, aliasing, and anti-alias filters.

Transition to/from Continuous Time Signals and Passband Modulation - Part 2

Covers direct conversion receivers, down-conversion, matched filters, and receiver architectures in wireless communication systems.

Sampling and Reconstruction

Covers sampling, Fourier Transform, and reconstruction using low-pass filters in signal processing.

Quantum Signal Processing

Covers IQ demodulation of noisy quantum signals using FPGA and MATLAB.

Signals & Systems I: Essential Bandwidth and Modulation Techniques

Explores essential bandwidth, modulation techniques, demodulation, and frequency multiplexing in signals and systems.

Amplified Spontaneous Emission Noise in Fiber Amplifiers

Explores amplitude and phase modulation, noise figures, and detector noise in fiber amplifiers.

Optical Detection: Synchronous and Direct Methods

Discusses optical detection methods, focusing on synchronous and direct detection techniques and their applications in imaging and measurement.

Analog and Digital Conversion

Explores analog and digital signal processing, A/D and D/A conversion, resolution, settling time, and digital interfaces in electronic circuits.

Principles of Digital Communication

Covers the principles of digital communication, focusing on the Nyquist Sampling Theorem and signal space dimension.

Radio Detectors

Introduces radio detectors, covering radio telescopes, receiver designs, AM radio, side-band mixing, and bolometers.

Signals and Systems: Sampling Theorem and Applications

Discusses the sampling theorem and its applications in signal processing.

Sampling Theorem: Illustration

Explores the sampling theorem through sinusoid reconstruction, under-sampling effects, and signal filtering importance.

Low-power Radio Design: Mixers Fundamentals

Explores the fundamentals of mixers in low-power radio design for the IoT, covering types, characteristics, and detailed analyses of the single balanced mixer.