Artificial transmission line

In telecommunications, an artificial transmission line is a two-port electrical network that has the characteristic impedance, transmission time delay, phase shift, or other parameter(s) of a real transmission line. It can be used to simulate a real transmission line in one or more of these respects.^[1]

Early artificial lines were used in telephony research and took the form of a cascade of lattice phase equalisers to provide the necessary delay. The lattice phase circuit was invented by Otto Zobel in the 1920s.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Federal Standard 1037C
^ Zobel, O J, Phase-shifting network, US patent 1 792 523, filed 12 March 1927, issued 17 Feb 1931.
^ Zobel, O J, "Theory and design of uniform and composite electric wave filters", Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 2 (1923), pp. 1–46.

[1] Federal Standard 1037C

[2] Zobel, O J, Phase-shifting network, US patent 1 792 523, filed 12 March 1927, issued 17 Feb 1931.

[3] Zobel, O J, "Theory and design of uniform and composite electric wave filters", Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 2 (1923), pp. 1–46.

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