Article | REF: R450 V2

Noise in electrical measurements

Author: Gérard CHOUTEAU

Publication date: March 10, 1997, Review date: May 20, 2022 | Lire en français

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    1. Notion of noise

    1.1 Definition

    Noise is any signal other than the desired signal in a measurement chain.

    It is characterized by two quantities:

    • its amplitude ;

    • its noise spectral density dP /df (which, for a continuous spectrum, represents the noise power P per unit frequency f ).

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    1.2 Signal-to-noise ratio S /B

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