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Title: Fast flux locked loop

Patent ·
OSTI ID:874724

A flux locked loop for providing an electrical feedback signal, the flux locked loop employing radio-frequency components and technology to extend the flux modulation frequency and tracking loop bandwidth. The flux locked loop of the present invention has particularly useful application in read-out electronics for DC SQUID magnetic measurement systems, in which case the electrical signal output by the flux locked loop represents an unknown magnetic flux applied to the DC SQUID.

Research Organization:
Kansas City Plant (KCP), Kansas City, MO (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00613
Assignee:
Honeywell International, Inc. (Morris County, NJ)
Patent Number(s):
US 6448767
Application Number:
09/596,135
OSTI ID:
874724
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Squid Fundamentals book January 1996
A direct current superconducting quantum interference device gradiometer with a digital signal processor controlled flux‐locked loop and comparison with a conventional analog feedback scheme journal January 1996
Advanced Squid Read-Out Electronics book January 1996
Some Broad-Band Transformers journal August 1959