Effective Noise Temperature
Question 1: What is the Noise temperature of an Amplifier?
Answer:
The noise temperature of an amplifier is the temperature of a resistance, if its input were terminated with a noise-free resistance, It would create the same amount of noise power at its output as the actual amplifier.
Question 2: Explain the relationship between noise temperature and noise figure.
Answer:
The noise figure number, which is measured in decibels (dB), tells how well an amplifier or RF receiver performs. The noise temperature is defined as the temperature required to generate an equivalent amount of Johnson-Nyquist Noise.
Question 3: What is a good noise figure?
Answer:
The ideal level is 0 dB, which denotes that the gadget generates exactly the same amount of noise as it receives. In this situation, we can state that our system has a decibel Noise Figure of 0.
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Effective Noise Temperature
The temperature at which the resistor’s resistance equals the noise power produced by the circuit or device is known as the effective noise temperature. Use of the effective noise temperature is common in the telecommunications sector.
The source noise temperature in a two-port network or amplifier, which is connected to a noise-free network or amplifier, will produce the same output noise power as that of the actual network or amplifier linked to a noise-free source, such temperature obtained is known as the effective input noise temperature. The effective noise temperature can also be calculated using the formula
Tn = 290(F – 1)
where,
F is the numeric noise factor
290 K is the standard noise temperature.