Small and Large Signal Behavior of 3-way Shared Amplifiers
Konferenz: GeMIC 2008 - German Microwave Conference
10.03.2008 - 12.03.2008 in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Tagungsband: GeMIC 2008
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Baras, Torben (Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik - Tech. Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, 21073 Hamburg, Germany)
Metz, Carsten (European Patent Office, 80298 München, Germany)
Inhalt:
A system analysis of a 3-way shared amplifier is presented in this paper. The Butler matrices are based on a planar multilayer microstrip implementation of a 3-Way phase combiner. The linear analysis focusses on the measured performance of the coupler arrangement incorporating commercially available medium power driver amplifiers. In the nonlinear analysis, oddorder intermodulation products, AM-AM, AM-PM as well as crossmodulation is studied. The analysis concludes with a load pull and efficiency comparison.