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Technical Feature Lossy Linearizers for Reduction of Nonlinear Distortion This article describes a technique for reducing distortion components in nonlinear electronic or electro-optic devices. The linearizer circuits are capable of generating both even- or odd-order distortion, or any combination thereof. Both compressive (180°) and expansive (0°) nonlinearity can be...

Product Feature A Compact High Power SSPA for Satellite Communication Applications Advanced Microwave Technologies Inc., ADVANTECH Dorval, QC, Canada Today's emerging satellite broadband applications require high power amplifiers. In recent years, significant advances have been made in solid-state technology that have resulted in solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA) becoming a...

Technical Feature Advanced RF Technologies for the Wireless Market Yvan Droinet Philips Semiconductors Caen, France Most products in the wireless world require more and more miniaturization. This incentive leads integrated circuit designers to develop innovative architectures with higher and higher integration levels. On the one hand, there is a...

Technical Feature Spectrum Monitored Adaptive Feedforward Linearization This article describes a method of maintaining the best cancellation of the distortion of a signal generated by a power amplifier. Prior papers and patents have proposed various linearizer structures and control algorithms. The design presented here consists of a feedforward linearizer's...

European Supplement Research@mwjournal.com Richard Mumford Microwave Journal European Editor A commitment to well funded, focused, commercially viable research is critical to the future prosperity of the microwave industry. In this special report Microwave Journal takes a snapshot of the research projects being investigated by academic and commercial establishments across...

Technical Note Design and Prototyping of a Transimpedance Front-end Amplifier for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Circuits As part of the development of an optical power monitor for use in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) circuits, the effectiveness of a logarithmic operational amplifier transimpedance front-end amplifier was investigated, and the...

PRODUCT FEATURE A 17 to 27 GHz GaAs MMIC Gain Block Amplifier from Multiple Sources Mimix Broadband Webster, TX A GaAs MMIC three-stage gain block amplifier covering the 17 to 27 GHz frequency range has been developed that features the option of individually biasing the three stages or biasing...

TECHNICAL FEATURE A Method of Measuring Large-signal S-parameters of High Power Transistors A measurement method for scattering parameters (S-parameters) of high power transistors is presented. The proposed method directly determines the S-parameters of high power transistors by measuring overall gain, phase and S-parameters of input and output matching network...

TECHNICAL FEATURE Improved Gain for a Dynamic Envelope Tracking Amplifier in Cellular Radio Handsets An envelope tracking (ET) amplifier with variable bias voltage is a potentially more efficient power amplifier technique for third generation cellular phones. However, the input and output impedances of the transistors vary with the bias...

PRODUCT FEATURE Wireless Telecommunications Testing with S-series Microwave Power Amplifiers Amplifier Research Souderton, PA Amplifier Research offers a broad range of power amplifiers covering DC to 40 GHz with output power ranging from 1 to 10,000 W. While applications include electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, RF component testing, physics (plasma...