A simple method for measuring the IM3 components of multi-stage cascaded power amplifiers considering the phase characteristics

Author

Nakatani, Toshifumi ; Matsuura, Tom ; Ogawa, Koichi

Author_Institution

Commun. Device Dev. Center, Matsushita Electr. Ind. Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

6-11 June 2004

Firstpage

1731

Abstract

A simple method has been proposed for the measurement of the output power and phase characteristics of the IM3 components appearing in multi-stage power amplifiers. By adopting a unique definition of the phase for the IM3 components that is independent of the delay time caused by transmission line and other instrument devices, it is possible to measure the phase, merely by using a vector signal analyzer. It is demonstrated that an accurate estimation of the IM3 characteristics of a two-stage cascaded power amplifier for cellular radio handheld terminals can be made by using the IM3 characteristics of the 1st and 2nd-stage amplifiers measured by the proposed method.

Keywords

cascade systems; intermodulation distortion; microwave power amplifiers; phase measurement; IM3 components measurement; cascaded circuits; cascaded power amplifiers; cellular radio handheld terminals; delay time; instrument devices; intermodulation distortion; multistage power amplifiers; output power; phase characteristics; phase measurement; power demand; transmission line; vector signal analyzer; Delay effects; Independent component analysis; Instruments; Phase measurement; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Power transmission lines; Time measurement; Transmission line measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2004 IEEE MTT-S International

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8331-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2004.1338929

Filename

1338929