IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
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Special Section on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technologies
Multi-Port Amplifier with Enhanced Linearity and Isolation Employing Feed-Forward Techniques
Yasunori SUZUKITetsuo HIROTAToshio NOJIMA
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2022 Volume E105.C Issue 10 Pages 501-508

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This paper proposes a new multi-port amplifier configuration that employs feed-forward techniques. In general, a multi-port amplifier is used as a transponder in a satellite transmitter. A multi-port amplifier comprises an N-in N-out input-side matrix network, N amplifiers, and an N-in N-out output-side matrix network. Based on this configuration, other undesired ports leak power to the desired port in a multi-port amplifier. If the power amplifier of a cellular base station uses a multi-port amplifier, the power leakage from the other ports causes degradation in the error vector magnitude. The proposed configuration employs N-parallel feed-forward amplifiers with a multi-port amplifier as the main amplifier. The proposed configuration drastically reduces the power leakage using the employed feed-forward techniques. An experimental 2-GHz band four-in four-out multi-port amplifier is constructed and tested. It achieves the leakage power level of -58 dB, a gain deviation of less than 0.05 dB, and a phase deviation of less than 0.45 deg. with the maximum power of 35 dBm over a 20-MHz bandwidth with the center frequency 2.14 GHz at room temperature. The experimental multi-port amplifier reduces the leakage power level by approximately 30 dB compared to that for a multi-port amplifier without the feed-forward techniques. The proposed configuration can be applied to power amplifiers in cellular base stations.

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