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Amplifier Negative Feedback: Reduce Nonlinear Distortion: X A X A

Negative feedback in amplifiers can: 1) Greatly reduce nonlinear distortion by compensating for any distortion in the amplifier. 2) Enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor equal to the gain of a pre-amplifier, effectively reducing noise. 3) Stabilize the gain of the overall amplifier circuit.

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Amplifier Negative Feedback: Reduce Nonlinear Distortion: X A X A

Negative feedback in amplifiers can: 1) Greatly reduce nonlinear distortion by compensating for any distortion in the amplifier. 2) Enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by a factor equal to the gain of a pre-amplifier, effectively reducing noise. 3) Stabilize the gain of the overall amplifier circuit.

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Amplifier negative feedback: reduce nonlinear distortion

• If a pre-amplifier with gain


1000 is placed before the
nonlinear one so that the
whole amplifier is used with
negative feedback, and the
A  1 gain for whole
amplifier becomes:
A f  9.99 for 0  xo  10
A f  9.98 for - 10  xo  0
which greatly reduce the
nonlinear distortion.
• This is achieved through
compensatory distortion of the
input signal

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Amplifier negative feedback: noise reduction

xo (t )  x s (t ) A1  x noise (t ) A1
x2 (t )  xs (t )  xo (t )
( xs ) 2
SNR  x1 (t )  A2 x2 (t )  xnoise(t )
( x noise ) 2
xo (t )  A1 x1 (t )
• If an amplifier (assumed to be noise
free or very low noise) is placed A1 A2 A1
xo (t )  xs (t )  xnoise(t )
before the noisy amplifier, then the 1  A1 A2 1  A1 A2
Signal-to-Noise (SNR) ratio is greatly
enhanced (by a factor equal to the ( xs ) 2
SNR  ( A2 ) 2
preceding amplifier gain) ( xnoise) 2

• As a summary, negative feedback is very useful in amplifier circuits. It can help


stabilize the gain, reduce nonlinear distortion and reduce noise.
• Also, as will be shown later, negative feedback in amplifiers can also control
input and output impedance.
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Amplifier negative feedback types

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